Re: [Mingw-cross-env-list] Legal Notes (was License issue / dependencies on OpenSSL)

[Lothar May]

Hi,

2011/2/26 Tony Theodore <address@hidden>:
(snip)
> I made a start on some doc updates, but I'm not happy with the tone.
> I've attached what I've done so far, hopefully someone can take over.

Well I think it's quite fine, since this is a page about licensing I
suppose nobody can expect that this is a very friendly page. I
personally would change the sentence
--
Implied by
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>freedom 0</a> and our
<a href="#copyright">own licence</a>,
the mingw-cross-env project has no opinion or fore-knowledge about the
use cases of developers.
--
to something like
--
According to
<a href="http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html";>freedom 0</a> and our
<a href="#copyright">own license</a>,
the mingw-cross-env project can be used in countless different
environments each with their own special license considerations.
--
But this is just my personal opinion, I like your style of writing and
my sentence might break this :-).

I'd add some sentence like "This is no legal advice, it is just meant
as general guidance" at the beginning.

In the line
"TODO - find some resources, SFLC doesn't seem to have a mailing list"
I would just link to SFLC, if at all.

In the section "LGPL and Static Linking" I'd remove the sentence and
instead link somewhere else where this is stated or cite. Actually, I
just looked for quite some time for some place (FSF, ...) where this
is clearly stated. The only place I could find was wikipedia, in other
places it is not as clear:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Lesser_General_Public_License

Thanks,
Lothar