Am Mittwoch, 7. Januar 2009 16:07:29 schrieb Stian Rødven Eide:
On Wed, 2009-01-07 at 14:56 +0100, Matthias Kirschner wrote:
The comments received so far are:
- Footer translation
- Moving text to "about"
Which text?
Most of the text on the front page actually. My suggestion is to move all "propaganda" (which would probably be the three first paragraphs and the FSFE-links) to a separate about-page. This will make the front page less terrifying for luddites, and it would create an appearance of the site as "an helpful overview of PDF-readers" rather than "a pr-stunt for FSFE". (Note that I'm not suggesting pdfreaders.org is a pr-stunt, but I'm quite sure many people will read it that way.)
I am against (re)moving any of the text. The whole point of pdfreaders.org is increasing visibility of Free Software and informing about Software Freedom as an ethical issue. We can discuss whether the text meets these criteria, but I am decidedly *against* making pdfreaders a mere download-portal (which it would be with the text moved to "about").
I don't know if you meant that, I just wanted to make my PoV clear.
- Add more readers? GSview? Gnupdf.org
- sumatra pdf portable
It seems to be a hacked version of sumatra pdf. I don't see why we should include it since AFAICS it doesnt provide any extra benefits over sumatra pdf and will only confuse people. Power users who carry all their applications on their usb-stick around with them and which are heavy sumatra-users, will figure out sooner or later that there is a portable version.
- gnupdf is not a reader, it should be included in the "more information" part with the link they sent us for call for developers.
How about GSview? It is licensed under Aladding Free Public License[1]. It is arguably a Free license (at least, the arguments against proprietary software on pdfreaders.org does not apply to it), but as it cannot be distributed for a fee, it is not accepted by the FSF.
We can discuss whether prohibiting "distribution for a fee" (like cc-by-sa-nc) makes software unfree, but according to FSF and FSFE definitions it certainly does. If we refer to those definitions, we must adhere to them (or become hypocrites).
In Solidarity Hannes