2011/11/18 Jürgen Schmidt <[email protected]>: > just stumbled over the about dialog box. > > Besides the logo on top + the name, version and build info the text box > below contains > > ### > Copyright © 2000, 2011 Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved. > This product was created by Oracle, based on OpenOffice.org. > OpenOffice.org acknowledges all community members, especially those > mentioned at > http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html. > ### > > We have to find a new text for this box. Any ideas! >
I have not seen any guidance on about boxes at Apache. This is probably because most Apache products are not desktop GUI software. But I think it would be good if we stated in the about box: 1) Copyright statement, with Apache Software Foundation as the owner. 2) Statement that the names Apache OpenOffice, OpenOffice.org and the logo are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation. 3) Statement that the software is available under the Apache 2.0 License and provide a link to the license 4) Statement that notices for other 3rd party components can be found int he the NOTICE file, and link to that 5) The credits link, if we want to maintain that If we were producing a Java library, we would have the LICENSE and NOTICE in the root of the tar file we distribute. So it would be prominent. I think we should also give prominence to these items in the about box. So in total, maybe something like: ========= Copyright © 2011 Apache Software Foundation. All rights reserved. "Apache OpenOffice", "OpenOffice.org" and the OpenOffice logo are trademarks of the Apache Software Foundation. Terms and conditions for use, reproduction and distribution of this software is governed by the Apache 2.0 license: http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 This software contains 3rd party open source software modules acknowledged in the following notice: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/incubator/ooo/trunk/main/NOTICE Apache OpenOffice acknowledges all community members, especially those mentioned at: http://www.openoffice.org/welcome/credits.html. ========= Of course, IANAL, so we should probably review this on legal-discuss once we have consensus here on what our preferred statement is. -Rob > And we still have the feature that when you press ctrl-s-d-t the dialog > content start scrolling to list a long list of names who have contributed to > this project ... I think this was always very much appreciated and should > keep it. Or does anything be against it or prevent it for whatever reason? > > > Juergen >
