Sorry for the delayed response and thanks for your reply. Your e-mail seems much better. I would post it to the group mail of the developer and would share the results.
Regards, Kaartic On Wed, 2017-04-05 at 20:12 +0200, Nico Rikken wrote: > Dear Kaartic, > > Great find, and I agree a free license could make this a better > project. From our point of view that is. > Some developers are not aware of free software licenses at all, some > are but still choose not to adopt a free software license. That's why > I > consider you sentence 'It would have been better if' too judgmental. > > As you might have found out, the project page [1] highlights how > other > Android apps might integrate. Also there was a question on the forums > about adding more languages [3]. > > [1] http://thesaurus.altervista.org/dictionary > [2] http://thesaurus.altervista.org/dictionary-android > [3] http://thesaurus.altervista.org/forum/index.php?forum=3&thread=12 > 88 > 897373 > > So if I were to write an email, I would adopt a slightly different > structure? > > > Hi, great you're delivering value, not tied to online services! > Have you considered a free software license? > A free software license would enable others to contribute to your > effort. > Contributions can come by bug reports, code, infrastructure, > documentation and translations. > I've seen more translations are requested [3], perhaps native > speakers > might be motivated to contribute to your effort. > A free software license shows users you care about their digital > freedoms, and this motivates users to use your software, and > contribute > to it. > If you'd like more information, or assistance, feel free to contact > me. > If I cannot help you directly, I know plenty of other community > members > who would like to help an awesome project like yours adopt a free > software license. > Kind regards. > > > Even if you were to use your stated e-mail, I think you'd be doing > great. Also you might consider posting on the forum, hoping that > others > might chip in. > > One last tip: I have found it to be more valuable to start a > conversation with a small initial email, rather than dumping a highly > detailed wall of text which might put people off. > > Please share the results of your effort. > > Kind regards, > Nico _______________________________________________ Discussion mailing list Discussion@lists.fsfe.org https://lists.fsfe.org/mailman/listinfo/discussion
