[scribus] logo and slogan note

Gerard Cunningham gerard at faduda.net
Sun Jan 31 20:10:24 CET 2010


On Sun, 2010-01-31 at 19:17 +0100, Vladimir Savic wrote:
> On 01/31/10 17:41, Robert Martinez wrote:
> > Hi there,


> > I don't intend to start a flame war :) ... but isn't it technically 
> > even "free software"?!
> 
> Free software is wider term then open source. Scribus is free open 
> source software, released under GPL license.
> 

There's no reason why GPL software can't be labelled "Free and Open
Source"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_and_open_source_software

The word 'free' may encourage take up among people who don't know/care
what open source is.

> > (I'm just curious if there are technical reasons or personal 
> > likes/dislikes to the term)
> > I also think the slogan (no matter what slogan) does not need to be as 
> > prominent on the homepage as the actual name of the application.
> >
> 
> Funny enough, home page (www.scribus.net) is far from our (unwritten) 
> visual guidelines. Others, more frequently edited (wiki), are much 
> better... Yet, far from perfect.



-- 
Gerard Cunningham
Journalist
Kildare town, Co Kildare





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