<div dir="ltr">On 17 April 2013 14:11, Paul Bone <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:paul@bone.id.au" target="_blank">paul@bone.id.au</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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I'm asked in IRC for any feedback on the new website. One person had a<br>
misunderstanding about Mercury's use of the GPL license. This shows that<br>
the website over-simplifies the licencing of Mercury. It says we use a GPL<br>
licence without saying that the libraries and runtime are LGPL<br>
(non-copyleft) which, under other circumstances, would have made him avoid<br>
using Mercury.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Second paragraph of the licence page.</div><div><br></div><div>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.</div>
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I suggest that we check the website for all cases of this oversimplification<br>
and correct it.<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>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).</div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div>
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