[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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