On Sun, Jan 02, 2011 at 07:58:28PM -0500, Bernie Innocenti wrote: > On Mon, 2011-01-03 at 11:28 +1100, James Cameron wrote: > > The GPL has a section on how to apply the license to a program, and > > it describes placing a summary of the license in the source. > > I'll ask the FSF licensing lawyer if there's an actual legal reason to > do so or if it's just excess safety.
Last thing I'd want to tell developers is "don't do what they say in that section of the GPL explanatory text". ;-} Complicates situation. > I'm not too keen on displaying the full text of the GPL, though. The GPL does indicate the minimum text to be displayed, it is only a few lines, and I think that is sufficient. We have the full license available in the control panel. But do we have translations for the minimum text? > Anyway, if there's some consensus on the basic idea of an About > function for activities, I could work on a patch in my spare time. I still can't figure out how to achieve consensus decision making in the absence of a meeting or a membership list. ;-) -- James Cameron http://quozl.linux.org.au/ _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel