On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 12:11 PM, jan i <j...@apache.org> wrote: > On 19 February 2015 at 17:54, Rob Weir <r...@robweir.com> wrote: > >> On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 11:38 AM, Simon Phipps <si...@webmink.com> wrote: >> > On Thu, Feb 19, 2015 at 4:27 PM, Alexandro Colorado <j...@oooes.org> >> wrote: >> > >> >> Why not just take it down, and re-publish it when there is a more >> >> agreeable content on it. >> > >> > >> > That sounds smart to me, +1. >> > >> > I note that on legal-discuss Jim [called the page][1] >> "misrepresentation" - >> > maybe he has comments on what the project should do here? >> > Let me put it like this without disclosing content of mails from private > lists, Jim is also AOO PMC member and has given good advice. > > My recommendation follow that advice. >
I'm a PMC member as well. I trust my -1 has been noted. > >> > >> >> Hi Simon, >> >> Rather than put it off to someone else, maybe you as an esteemed >> project contributor can help with some suitable replacement content. >> Why do you think the ASF mandates the ALv2 and forbids GPL? Surely >> it is not merely some bit of arcane religious dogma that we practice >> out of blind devotion, without knowing any reason why. So in your >> personal opinion, as a project member, why do we prefer ALv2? And >> how can we best express these benefits to potential users? >> >> Changing the content, does not change the fact about whose opinion it is ! > > I have already made one proposal as to how a disclaimer placed at top could > look like. > "This page do not reflect the opinion of ASF or the AOO PMC" > I assumed that was a placeholder. Abbreviations like "ASF" and "AOO" and "PMC" will not be understood by a random visitor. And beyond the abbreviations very few visitors will understand what the ASF is, what the PMC is, how they relate, etc. This is a kind of disclaimer that causes more confusion. I know that you've avoided actually reading or understanding the page but I'd highly recommend trying to understand that page in context. Something like 80% of the visitors to that page reach it from search (Google or Bing). Aside from a few Apache and FSF insiders writhing in anguish over this page, almost everyone who sees it comes to it without any deep knowledge of how the ASF works. So I think any disclaimer would need to be written in a form that is clear to them. -Rob > rgds > jan I. > >> >> Thanks! >> >> -Rob >> >> > S. >> > >> > [1]: >> > >> http://mail-archives.apache.org/mod_mbox/www-legal-discuss/201502.mbox/%3CB5FAC1D8-332E-48FD-A495-5E5C9255A859%40jaguNET.com%3E >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org >> For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org >> >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: dev-unsubscr...@openoffice.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: dev-h...@openoffice.apache.org
