[Sugar-devel] Full Licence field

[Carol Farlow Lerche]

I liked Wade's suggestion of making it part of help, as it is in other
desktops.  (help->about)  Of course this presumes that the great help debate
results in a help button/thingy!! (My challenged GUI nomenclature is one
more piece of evidence as to why I don't build GUIs for a living.)

On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 7:14 AM, Tomeu Vizoso <tomeu at sugarlabs.org> wrote:

> I suggest a palette attached to a button in the toolbar to show this
> info, or a modal alert similar to the object chooser.
>
> Regards,
>
> Tomeu
>
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 19:52, Carol Farlow Lerche <cafl at msbit.com> wrote:
> > This brings up an issue I have been thinking about, since the SynPhony
> > database comprises several "with attribution" components.  Would it make
> > sense to have a common design element that was "about <activity>" or
> > "credits" that would allow contributions to be acknowledged?  Leaving
> aside
> > whether it is a license requirement I think it is good practice to show
> > Sugar users, aka kids, that some people cared enough to build this stuff,
> > and that if they build stuff they can receive acknowledgement too.
> >
> > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 4:06 AM, Simon Schampijer <simon at schampijer.de>
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> we did show a full license in the Control Panel before. The path was
> >> hard coded to where OLPC had placed the GPL license. What can we do to
> >> meet the expectations of all the distributions that want to ship sugar?
> >>
> >> Thanks for inputs on this,
> >>    Simon
> >>
> >> http://dev.sugarlabs.org/ticket/357
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