[libreoffice-marketing] Re: [libreoffice-marketing] website terminology for free software

Hi Andrea,

thanks for the reminder, but the topics seem to be quite unrelated to me.


----- Original Message -----
From: pescetti@openoffice.org

(off topic: I could imagine, that the @openoffice.org mail addresses might
become unavailable from one day to another. Are you prepared to use a 
different one in future?)

To: marketing@global.libreoffice.org
Date: 05.08.2011 08:49:58
Subject: Re: [libreoffice-marketing] website terminology for free software


> On 04/08/2011 Florian Effenberger wrote:
> > I've received a request to change two things on our website, regarding
> > terminology:
> > - Instead of solely using "open source", I was asked that we should also
> > use "free software".
> > - "Linux" should be referred to as "GNU/Linux".
>
> Before addressing this, I'd wish that the factual information is right, 
> since the license stated on the English website is just wrong, see
> http://www.mail-archive.com/website@global.libreoffice.org/msg05211.html
> (the Italian pages have the right information).

Please repost this request to the website mailing list again - it is not a
marketing question. 

I agree to your statement that "LGPL 3 (or later)" is not the license the present 
LibreOffice product is released under.

I'd replace "LGPL 3 (or later)" by "As parts
of our code have been licensed under LGPL 3, the full binaries have to be 
released under this license, even if we aim to LGPL 3 (or later) and MPL in 
future."
> Factual errors should be corrected before making any terminology 
> improvements: once the license indication is right, then it's OK to 
> improve the text around it.

I don't see these topics to be related at all:
The community works on different bugs at the same time. Even if there
are more critical errors in the software nobody wants to refrain from 
correcting minor ones or even typos.

Please raise awareness on the appropriate list about your license issue
(I'm quite sure it just has been overseen in the past) and let others work
on the topics of their interest.

Best regards

Bernhard




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