[libreoffice-marketing] Re: Website EasyHack: Ask users to contribute while they are running their download

Hi Harri,

Thanks for the information!

Cheers,

Marc

Le 2012-10-15 12:00, Harri Pitkänen a écrit :
> On Sunday 14 October 2012, Marc Paré wrote:
> > Maybe if we just added a "Not applicable in Finland" or something to the
> > effect that the donation process is not for Finland.
> >
> > I wonder if just a simple sentence just as this would be enough?
>
> I think it would be enough but I'm not a lawyer so I don't know for sure.
>
> > What
> > are other large projects doing?
>
> I posted this question to the cross-project mailing list of Finnish free
> software localizers. So far nobody has admitted translating any donation
> links. One participant managed to get a lawyer's opinion on the matter and
> according to the lawyer it seems likely that distributing the donation link is
> indeed illegal in Finland (without a permit).
>
> This is what I managed to find by myself:
>
> Firefox:
>    - No donation links in the software package, no donation links on translated
>      Finnish web pages.
> Apache OOo:
>    - There is an English donation link on the Finnish web page as a part of the
>      standard site footer (not done by the Finnish localizer). I don't think
>      there are donation links in the software package?
> debian.org:
>    - Finnish web site contains a request to donate "hardware or services". This
>      is legal here, the restrictions only apply to direct monetary donations.
> ubuntu-fi.org
>    - No donation links that I could find. I don't know what plans the
>      localizers have for the upcoming releases where there might be donation
>      links within the software.
> Wikipedia:
>    - Has translated donation form in Finnish. But the project is also
>      incorporated in Finland as a registered non-profit so they could
>      have the required permit. Nothing in their financial report suggests that
>      they have it though.
>
> Anyway it is important to know that people in Finland are free to donate to
> the TDF if the want (and manage to find out how from the international
> website). The only thing that is forbidden is to ask them to donate. So there
> is no need to exclude anyone from the donation form, we just need to avoid any
> links or suggestions to do so in any material that is distributed in Finland.
>
> Harri


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