[deepamehta-devel] License Files

[Urs Lerch]

Hi,

to explain a little bit the "Apache way": if only one finds a
proposition negative (-), then normally he can't be simply overruled by
the masses. In this case there is always a need for further discussion. 

Regards,
Urs

Am Dienstag, den 24.06.2008, 14:05 +0200 schrieb Jörg Richter:
> 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!
> 
> 
> 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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