the new oVirt website: live preview!

[Mike Burns]

On Thu, 2012-09-20 at 09:37 -0400, Richard Fontana wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 20, 2012 at 03:18:20PM +0200, jwildebo at redhat.com wrote:
> > On 09/20/2012 02:57 PM, Dave Neary wrote:
> > 
> > >IMHO, the license matters at earliest when you're downloading (so not on
> > >the front page),
> > 
> > Disagree. It should be on the front page. For various reasons. The
> > main reason being that it is a fundamentally important thing to
> > know. A short thing like "Open Source mainly under ASL 2.0,
> > specifics here" where "here" is a link to the detailed license page.

Definitely have to say "mainly" or "mostly". ovirt-node is GPLv2, not
ASL and I'm pretty sure that the wiki stuff is something else (creative
commons, maybe?)

Mike

> > 
> > Doesn't hurt at all and makes it clear upfront what we are doing here.
> 
> I agree with Jan. I'm obviously far from your target user or
> contributor (unless they are the sort that likes to or has to check
> with their lawyers, which could well be the case). However, two things
> that I find extremely annoying about so many project websites are (1)
> you have to go through multiple steps to get *any* idea about how the
> software is licensed, and (2) when licensing information is given, it
> tends to be inaccurately simple (because it is rarely the case that
> licensing can be reduced to one license). A statement like Jan
> suggests addresses both of these problems.
> 
> Sadly, if it's a project I'm just finding out about, I don't trust the
> mere statement that it's "open source", and even when that's a
> reasonably accurate statement it isn't specific enough to be helpful
> to people who care about these things.
> 
> - Richard
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