On Friday, February 27, 2015, Andrea Pescetti <pesce...@apache.org> wrote:

> On 25/02/2015 jonathon wrote:
>
>> On 23/02/15 17:10, Andrea Pescetti wrote:
>>
>>> I have to state it again: this is not the way I would have written the
>>> page; it is a version of the page that preserves all terms we had on
>>> that page. If we agree on another version I'm very happy.
>>>
>>
>> Is there a need/requirement to preserve all the terms on the page?
>>
>
> An argument that was made during other discussions on this topic was that
> the page had been designed to intercept web searches by people that did not
> even know about OpenOffice. Now, I can understand that people who search
> information about BSA audits will be relieved to discover OpenOffice and
> the fact that it poses no compliance problems. I doubt that mentions of the
> FSF and SFLC can be justified by the same reasons (the audience in that
> case is radically different) so I have nothing against rewriting this part
> avoiding to name specific entities and licenses (other than the ASF and
> Apache License, of course).

+1 let us get this behind us. Having the page can have a purpose, and the
way you suggest to rewrite it does no harm.



rgds
jan i

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> Regards,
>   Andrea.
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