On Nov 1, 2010, at 9:01 PM, Felix Meschberger wrote: > Am Dienstag, den 26.10.2010, 13:42 -0400 schrieb Shane Curcuru: >> Actually, I would point the License link on any main TLP website at the >> overview page, since it's pretty obvious from there what the specific >> legal license is, and because it provides a useful overview. >> >> I'd agree that any License links in software code or releases themselves >> should point at the specific LICENSE-2.0 itself, like you suggest. But >> I think a top level link on the main websites is best to go to the >> License overview page. >> >> Any other opinions on tradema...@? > > Coming from the Trademarks side I could agree to a certain extent. > Looking at it from a user perspective, though, I disagree. > > Consider this: Anne is interested in Sling and goes to sling.apache.org > and sees the License link. Fine, she has to check the license anyway, so > lets do it right away. But what's the license ? She's not interested in > the license history or any contributor stuff, she just wants to learn > about the applicable license. > > Hence, I think TLP pages should really point to the actual license page > not the license overview page.
I agree. The license link on all of the non-ASF open source projects that I have seen go to a page describing the software license for that project's product. Other licenses are only discussed on the "how to contribute" pages. ....Roy
