On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 3:49 PM, Andrea Pescetti <[email protected]> wrote: > On 09/12/2013 Larry Sadler wrote: >> >> In response to the Call for Comments ... Distributor Best Practices, I >> suggest a clause pointing out that AOO is governed by the [appropriate] >> licence agreement and subject to legal remedies under that licence for >> misuse such as charging to the software . > > > I would like to add to the guidelines that all "approved" distributors must > include a notice where appropriate (site footer, for example; or a more > visible place; this can be discussed) saying that Apache OpenOffice can be > downloaded for free from the official site http://www.openoffice.org >
Something interesting I saw on another program that gave me an idea. The other program had this text on the first page of the install wizard: "Beware of online scams! A number of websites have taken our free Foo client and attempt to charge money for it through some sort of "fee" or "subscription" or they install it for free but infect your computer with malicious code in the process. To protect yourself, be sure to only download our software from http://foo.com. You should NEVER under any circumstances pay for Foo software". I don't think we can say exactly the same thing, but I like the idea of having such a warning in the install. There is nothing to prevent a 3rd party from rebuilding the install without that message, of course, but most do not have even that skill. > This should be obvious but in some cases it might happen that a distributor > shows up first when a user searches "get OpenOffice" and the user should > always be informed that he can simply download it from our site. > > Regards, > Andrea. > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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]
