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Re: About dialog Copyright style

 

Looks good to me. Is this something we can bake in to the About Dialog maybe?

Best Regards,
Daniel Foré

www.elementaryos.org

El mar 26, 2012, a las 3:28 p.m., Cassidy James <c@xxxxxxxxxxx> escribió:

> So...
> 
> http://elementaryos.org 
>   
> Copyright Ⓒ 2010-2012 elementary
>  
>  Developed by: 
>  Imaginary Person
>  Another Name
>  Someother Guy
>  Awesome Developer
>  Random Dude
>  Rockstar Chick 
>  elementary Community
>  
>  Designed by: 
>  Daniel Foré 
>  Harvey Cabaguio 
>  elementary UX Team
>  
>  Translated by: 
>  Multilingual Lady
>  Bilingual Dude
>  Random Person 
>  
>  This app is published under the terms of the GPL. You are free to modify and redistribute this app under those terms. For details, visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html.
> 
> Feedback? Once we get this agreed upon, we should go through and update all of our apps to be consistent. Perhaps we'd even throw a bit about the "About" dialog in the HIG. 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 3:50 PM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Yea I'd agree with you Cassidy that we probably care more about the people and we can put the license at the bottom.
> 
> Mario, just some :backdrop related bugs. I fixed them :P
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 1:44 PM, Cassidy James <c@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> I kind of agree that throwing "ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY" on there looks bad. :P Are we required to use that exact text under the GPL? Everything I've read has said that you basically just have to say that it's published under the GPL and provide the license or a link to the license.
> 
> If that's the case, we could say somthing more like:
> 
> Website 
>   
> Copyright Ⓒ 2010-2012 elementary 
>   
> This app is published under the terms of the GPL. You are free to modify and redistribute this app under those terms. For details, visit http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html. 
>  
>  Developed by: 
>  Imaginary Person
>  Another Name
>  Someother Guy
>  Awesome Developer
>  Random Dude
>  Rockstar Chick 
>  elementary Community
>  
>  Designed by: 
>  Daniel Foré 
>  Harvey Cabaguio 
>  elementary UX Team
>  
>  Translated by: 
>  Multilingual Lady
>  Bilingual Dude
>  Random Person
>  
> And each of those names would point to the Launchpad user or team page (I think that's how we do it now anyway).
> 
> I also almost wonder about putting the license bit at the bottom? Do we care more about the license or the people that made the app? Another thing to look at is if we want the "Website" text to say something else, like "Visit the website..." or "http://elementaryos.org";. 
> 
> Feedback?
> 
> Regards,
> Cassidy James
> 
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 11:47 AM, Daniel Foré <daniel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hey Mario,
> 
> I think probably the Scratch way is better, imo.
> 
> But also looks like you spotted two eGTK bugs haha.
> 
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 6:56 AM, Mario Guerriero <mefrio.g@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I think we should define how we want to show the Copyright in our About dialogs. 
> 
> What I exactly mean is that:
> http://imagebin.org/205216
> 
> Should we use a simple About dialog (as in BeatBox) without a license or as in Scratch?
> 
> Regards
> 
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