[m-rev.] Feedback about new website

[Peter Wang]

On 17 April 2013 14:11, Paul Bone <paul at bone.id.au> wrote:

>
> I'm asked in IRC for any feedback on the new website.  One person had a
> misunderstanding about Mercury's use of the GPL license.  This shows that
> the website over-simplifies the licencing of Mercury.  It says we use a GPL
> licence without saying that the libraries and runtime are LGPL
> (non-copyleft) which, under other circumstances, would have made him avoid
> using Mercury.
>

Second paragraph of the licence page.

Including the full copy of the GPL directly underneath may be misleading.
Perhaps the links should be to copies of the GPL and LGPL hosted on-site
(could be plain text), instead of linking to the FSF.

I suggest that we check the website for all cases of this oversimplification
> and correct it.
>

I found two places: the pull quote on the main page (replace it with
something else) and the top of the download page (easily clarified).

Peter
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