[Adium-devl] DMG Background proposal

David Smith catfish.man at gmail.com
Tue Nov 14 01:05:50 UTC 2006


	I agree with both removals. The GPL is a source license, not an  
EULA, and the hand needs no elaboration.

					David

On Nov 13, 2006, at 4:52 PM, Evan Schoenberg wrote:

>
> On Nov 13, 2006, at 7:20 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:
>
>> Well, for me its not realy of whether its confusing or not. For me  
>> its
>> a question of being universal. We have adium supporting over
>> twenty-one languages (including variations of English), and for
>> the disk image to look as if it was only designed for one of them
>> sounds a little lacking in QA.
> This is a good point.  I'd be okay removing the English sentence  
> from the disk image background; the hand does a good job showing  
> what to do.
>
>> This actually makes we wonder whether we should be including
>> the GPL in other languages, but that is an issue for another topic.
> The GPL is only valid in English, as it has not been approved by  
> the FSF or reviewed by lawyers in other languages, so I don't think  
> we should include it as a license for Adium itself.  We *could*  
> include a link to http://www.gnu.org/licenses/translations.html  
> which offers unofficial translations of the GPL.
>
> -evan
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