Re: [Audacity-quality] Verbosity in installer dialog.
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From: Gale A. <ga...@au...> - 2012-02-23 18:47:03
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| From Vaughan Johnson <va...@au...> | Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:16:28 -0800 | Subject: [Audacity-quality] Verbosity in installer dialog. > Thanks for the votes. > > On 2/22/2012 12:37 PM, James Crook wrote: > > On 21/02/2012 22:10, Vaughan Johnson wrote: > I was going to be the tie-breaker and just do that, but I thought about > how to address Gale's concern about people asking whether we changed the > license. And I agree with James that the 1.3.14 page is intimidating and > starts OT. > > Decided we might as well have a 3rd file that's used only as the > InfoBeforeFile in Win installers. It replaces the license display page > with abbreviated text from the home and license pages. Inno shows a > scroller, but the whole text is visible without scrolling. It's an rtf > instead of txt, so has bold text and links. And doesn't require new > tarballs because it's Windows-only. > > Please generate new Windows installers and comment -- or just post, if > you're happy with the change! Thanks :=) My 2p's. Nice to see links to "About Audacity", Wiki and Forum. Text about the licence - If we are simplifying, do we need to encourage "You may also copy, distribute, modify, and/or resell Audacity"? If we do, how about linking "distribute, modify, and/or resell" to http://audacity.sourceforge.net/about/license to encourage good bundling/reselling practices? Do we need the detail about different versions of GPL, which must surely be irrelevant to users and would be covered if we had the link above. Could we just say "see LICENSE.txt in the program", or better, link to: http://audacity.googlecode.com/svn/audacity-src/trunk/LICENSE.txt ? It mentions the README, it shows people the actual licence file we use and if lib-src is important (I still think so on principle) , it shows that too. Gale |