Hi Regina, thank you for your comments which I personally share.
We, as the Board of Directors, sent out a communication trying to make clear that we are still discussing various options with members of different teams and naturally the Community. Unfortunately, during various edits, it seems like a sentence specifying clearly that one of the various options was also not to add any tag line went missing. I'm not a fan of adding a tag line especially if that means diminishing the perceived value of LibreOffice so I'm very happy to support your line of thoughts, shared by many others, within the Board but we naturally have to take in consideration the pro and cons of all proposals and feedback to take decisions which are in the best interest of the LibreOffice Community. I agree that the "Personal" tag line in 7.0 RC is quite premature. We have decided to add the code that could allow the insertion of future tag lines, which has been done, but the options are still open for other tags or no tag at all. Until I've seen the screenshot I wasn't aware that a value has been assigned to the string which I presumed it would have been empty until a decision had been taken. Thank you again for participating to the discussion and please do keep telling us what you think about the direction we are taking to help us performing our tasks in the best way possible. I also encourage all the members of the Community, Open Source enthusiasts and those that simply want to use the best Open Source Office Suite to keep sending feedback through the mailing lists so that we can carry on improving it. Ciao Paolo On 06/07/2020 23:24, Regina Henschel wrote: > Dear board members, > > I ask you to remove the label "Personal Edition" and related texts > from LibreOffice version 7.0. > > Reasons: > All terms similar to "personal", "individual" or "private" are bad. > Whether LibreOffice will find a strong distribution depends not on the > actual license, but on the first impression about the allowed usage. > > Expressions such as "personal", "individual" or "private" exclude use > in the field of education, for associations and non-profit > organizations and for small businesses. Especially in this area it can > be assumed that there is no deeper knowledge about licenses. Here the > text when starting the software is crucial. > > The term "edition" alone is not the problem, but the composition as > "Personal Edition". To distinguish this version of LibreOffice from > other versions, it should not be divided into "personal" and > "non-personal", which is not allowed by the statutes. > > The versions of LibreOffice are always complete, but are provided by > various partners. It is the task of each partner to communicate to his > prospective customers the added value of not simply taking the version > of TDF and installing it. I know that such a large software project > can only last if paid developers work on it. But supporting these > partners by giving the impression of providing a restricted version is > the wrong way. > > I do not like that this label was introduced in a beta version three > weeks before the release. I would have preferred it if you had called > the community to come up with ideas. > > Kind regards > Regina > > -- Paolo Vecchi - Deputy Member of the Board of Directors The Document Foundation, Kurfürstendamm 188, 10707 Berlin, DE Gemeinnützige rechtsfähige Stiftung des bürgerlichen Rechts Legal details: https://www.documentfoundation.org/imprint
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