Re: website blurb about licensing of iso downloads

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On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 12:27 PM Richard Fontana <rfontana@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 12:09 PM Jilayne Lovejoy <jlovejoy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/4/21 1:46 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > > On Thu, Nov 04, 2021 at 07:44:43AM +0000, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> [see https://pagure.io/fedora-web/websites/issue/215 for the original issue]
> > >>
> > >> I hope that this is the right venue for this question/review request:
> > >> https://getfedora.org/ currently says
> > >>> Fedora is always free for anyone to use, modify, and distribute.
> > >>> It is built and used by people across the globe who work together as a community.
> > >> There is a pull request open to amend the text to include:
> > >>
> > >>   <small>{% trans trimmed %}It is a compilation of software packages,
> > >>   each under its own license. Images that can be downloaded here are
> > >>   available under the combination of licenses of the constituent
> > >>   software packages and the license of the Fedora project itself.
> > >>   <a href="https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Legal:Licenses/LicenseAgreement#License";>View License</a>{% endtrans %}</small>
> > > This^ is https://pagure.io/fedora-web/websites/pull-request/218#request_diff
> > looking at the PR and the website page itself - do I understand
> > correctly that this is essentially adding a line to the blurb at the
> > last section (before the footer banner) of this page -
> > https://getfedora.org/ - next to the gray/white globe graphic?
> >
> > Just trying to visualize the end result.
>
> I think so. Seems to be associated with this issue:
> https://pagure.io/fedora-web/websites/issue/215
>
> I'm not sure why it's that important to say this, but I guess it's
> mostly worded okay, except that "the license of the Fedora project
> itself" should be reworded since there is no license of the Fedora
> project itself (in my view, anyway). There is a collective work
> license -- the MIT license -- but I don't see that much value in
> placing any emphasis on that. But if that is going to be referred to,
> it should be "the license of the Fedora distribution itself", not the
> more ambiguous "the license of the Fedora project itself".

Or maybe "the license of the Fedora Linux distribution itself" (if I
recall correctly there's been some effort to refer to the distribution
as "Fedora Linux").

Richard
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