Re: [libreoffice-design] User research, Icon-Testing et al.

Hi Björn,


> Concerning my motivation: it is not marketing. I care about Free Software. I 
> think this service is simply another peace we need to solve the big Free-
> Software-Puzzle. It does happen to legally belong to a company and it might 
> make money (tm) but most importantly it follows and serves Free-Software 
> principles. 

Making money is always a laudable goal for a business. ;)

 
> > What exactly is meant by "unless I stated something different before"? Does
> > that mean I can put proprietary data on UserWeave as long as I've released
> > it elsewhere under a proprietary license before I joined UserWeave?
> > (I'm sure it doesn't, but given that this is a legally-binding agreement,
> > this phrase should be worded differently or taken out altogether.)
>
> There is a potential long term business model (tm). The idea: people that want 
> to use the service can pay for not having their data released and published. 
> This money shall be used to to finace the development and hosting of the 
> software under the best of Free Softwares principles. But it will always be 
> free of charge for projects working in the open. So this "state"ment is meant 
> to refer to this potential business model. I will have to think about 
> rephrasing it. I have been talking to some open knowledge foundation guys 
> before, perhaps they can help.

Please do think about rephrasing it. For instance, if we upload (other
people's) icons there, this will create a huge licensing issue for us.
It can be hard to track down everyone who's worked on an icon and it
will be even harder to convince them to relicense their icons "just" for
research.
Maybe you could ask for people to use an "OSI-approved open source
license"/"GNU-approved free license" instead and just default to CC-by?

Astron.


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