On Thu, May 9, 2013 at 12:50 PM, janI <[email protected]> wrote: > On May 9, 2013 6:34 PM, "Rob Weir" <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I wonder if we can make this be more rational? >> >> For example, the About box currently says: "Copyright © 2012 Apache >> Software Foundation. >> All rights reserved." >> >> That needs to be changed to 2013, right? > +1 >> >> It also says, "This product was created by Apache Software Foundation, >> based on Apache OpenOffice." >> >> That confuses me. It probably confuses users as well. Isn't this >> Apache OpenOffice? Why are we saying "based on Apache OpenOffice" ? >> I wonder if we can simply remove that line altogether. > > +1 but the box should contain the name Apache open office. >> >> (Also, the Splash Screen makes a similar odd statement: "Build >> contributed by member of the Apache OpenOffice community") > > I would suggest: > > Apache Open Office is created by volunteers. > but I am fine with other texts that are not cryptic. >
Or even make it a promotional statement: "Apache OpenOffice: Powered by Community" or something like that. >> >> Presumably these phrases came from earlier days when Sun or Oracle was >> credited as the "contributor" of the executable. But I'm not sure >> the distinction is important any more. >> >> The new License button, however, is very nice, giving quick access to >> readme, license and notice. > > we should consider having the license en+local for national versions, with > a note that the local version is a translation and the en version dominates. > > reasoning, our translators are not laywers and may unvolunterely change the > meaning. > Is the license even in Pootle? I certainly agree with you that the English (original) version is the authoritative version. But I don't think it is worth the effort for translators to even try translating it, for the reason you state. It is specialized legal language. -Rob > rgds > jan i >> >> -Rob >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] >> For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected] >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] For additional commands, e-mail: [email protected]
