[License-discuss] license information improvement project - now with a mockup!

Mike Milinkovich mike.milinkovich at eclipse.org
Thu Nov 7 10:37:03 UTC 2013


>     If the license steward doesn't have a dedicated license page
>     (other than the text), like EPL, the closest to a license homepage
>     would be the legal page I assume...[1] However, it only has other
>     Eclipse information and not about the license. I'm not sure it helps.
>     I provisionally set EPL FAQ as homepage. I must misunderstand the
>     intention of the homepage placeholder, in my attempt to take MPL's
>     as example. MPL has a rich home. :)
>
>
> No, I think in the EPL case, the FAQ is the right thing to link to. I 
> think the key thing is to have the "most informative page about the 
> license that is not the license itself"; whether that is a homepage or 
> a FAQ doesn't matter that much; if it is both, no harm there either.

I agree that the EPL FAQ page is the best available alternative for the 
license.

Oddly enough, it has never occurred to us to have a page dedicated to 
the license. I'm going to add that to the "to do" list.

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