[deepamehta-devel] License Files

Jörg Richter jri at deepamehta.de
Di Jun 24 14:05:18 CEST 2008


Hi,

i choose option D ;-)

	COPYING.txt
	COPYING-de.txt

Mac OS X can't always guess the proper application to open the file 
when double clicked. In this situation an alert box is raised which 
leads to a very bad user experience (see screenshot). That's why all 
files in the SVN repository have an extension. It's for the user's 
sake!

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Still I feel LICENSE the better name over COPYING because it tells 
better what this file actually is.

Democratic decisions is not always a good way. When ist comes to 
Software, Mac users would always outvoted.

Cheers,
Jörg


On 24.06.2008, at 12:28, Urs Lerch wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Jörg proposed to give the licence files modest different names. A quick
> research of well known projects shows the following results:
>
>   project            name of the licence file
>   ----------------- ------------------------
>   Java (OpenJDK)    LICENSE
>   Linux Kernel      COPYING
>   GCC               COPYING
>   emacs             COPYING
> ?  KDE               COPYING
>   Gnome             COPYING
>   ?Gimp              COPYING
>   MySql	            COPYING
>   Apache            LICENCE
>   OpenOffice        in Sourcefiles
>
> In my opinion it is best to do it the way the other do. So my prefered
> proposition for the naming of the licence files is:
>
>   A) COPYING
>      COPYING-de
>
> Alternate, in respect to Java, I propose:
>
>   B) LICENSE
>      LICENSE-de
>
> And, finally, to respect Jörgs wishes, here's my third proposition:
>
>   C) LICENSE.txt
>      LICENSE-de.txt
>
> I propose to do it the Apache way: For each possibility every one can
> tell if he's positive (+), negative (-) or indifferent (0). And at the
> end we take the one with the most agreement.
>
> So my opinion is:
>
>   A) +
>   B) 0
>   C) 0
>
> Regards,
> Urs
>
>
> Am Sonntag, den 22.06.2008, 21:10 +0200 schrieb Jörg Richter:
>> Hi Urs,
>>
>> thank you for adding the license files!
>> Your SVN operation looks OK.
>> Just one note:
>>
>> Pperhaps it is a good idea to rename the files:
>> 	licence -> LICENSE.txt
>> 	lizenz -> LICENSE-de.txt
>> This way the naming would match the README files.
>> Please note: I prefere "License" -- with an s --, the american english
>> form. All DeepaMehta texts are written in american english, like the
>> GPL3 itself.
>>
>> Furthermore you are now an administrator for the Berlios bug tracking
>> and feature request tools. This means you can make changes to bug
>> reports and feature requests. Now you are able to close your feature
>> request #004180 by yourself.
>>
>> Thanks for your first check-in!
>>
>> Cheers,
>> Jörg


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