On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 7:03 AM, Diego Biurrun <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sun, Jul 24, 2011 at 09:16:02AM +0200, Luca Barbato wrote: >> >> --- a/src/index >> +++ b/src/index >> @@ -16,8 +16,9 @@ on your choice of configuration options. If you use Libav >> or its constituent >> libraries, you <b>must</b> adhere to the terms of the license in question. >> You can find basic compliance information and get licensing help on our >> <a href="legal.html">license and legal considerations page</a>. >> -Note that if you violate our license terms, we will track you down, list >> -you on our <a href="shame.html">Hall of Shame</a> and eventually sue you. >> +If you happen to violate our license terms, we will help you to address >> +such issues. >> +License violations are managed on our <a >> href="http://bugzilla.libav.org";>bug tracker</a> and we keep a page with the >> unresponsive <a href="/shame">violators</a> to make the public aware of them. >> </p> > > I'm not happy about the change. License compliance is not an afterthought > and it is not a minor detail that we help out with. This statement IMO > encourages non-compliance. It sounds as if we would gladly help out with > issues and don't mind non-compliance. This is clearly not the case.
The current website basically says "we will sue you" on our front page. Sure, it's qualified, but common sense says this is not the way to get users, regardless of whether they intend to follow the terms of the license or not. I will reject any patch to this section that doesn't remove all such threats from the page. Jason _______________________________________________ libav-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.libav.org/mailman/listinfo/libav-devel
