Issue 127556

Summary:	Add hint to remember to download always from the original source
Product:	General	Reporter:	Marcus <marcus>
Component:	ui	Assignee:	AOO issues mailing list <issues>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---	QA Contact:
Severity:	Normal
Priority:	P5 (lowest)	CC:	mseidel, oooforum, pescetti
Version:	4.1.3
Target Milestone:	4.2.0
Hardware:	All
OS:	All
Issue Type:	ENHANCEMENT	Latest Confirmation in:	---
Developer Difficulty:	---

Description Marcus 2017-10-14 12:35:27 UTC

Adding a text to the splash screen and About box to remember the users about some facts:

Apache OpenOffice is Open Source Software and therefore available free of charge with no license fees. Remember always download the software from its original source: https://www.openoffice.download/

For the About box it would look like the following:

[Logo]

Apache OpenOffice 4.2.0

[Version string 1]
[Version string 2]

Copyright © 2017 The Apache Software Foundation.

Apache OpenOffice is Open Source Software and therefore available free of charge with no license fees. Remember always download the software from its original source: https://www.openoffice.download/

This product was created by the OpenOffice community.

The OpenOffice community acknowledges all contributing members, especially those mentioned at

[Link]

Comment 1 Matthias Seidel 2017-10-14 13:02:56 UTC

I do like the idea of having that text in the About box.

As it would create new strings this would be a task we could combine with synchronizing new translations from Pootle.

I would not like it in the splash screen.
It is only visible for a short time, users can hardly read the text and it is impossible to follow the link.

The splash screen should stay simple.

BTW: The link is wrong, it should be https://download.openoffice.org or https://openoffice.org/download

Comment 2 Marcus 2017-10-14 13:06:57 UTC

OK, I was too fast with typing. Of course it has to be "https://www.openoffice.org/download/"

Comment 3 Andrea Pescetti 2017-10-14 15:29:37 UTC

The text will have to be adjusted a bit, since (while in practice this is true of any major software) Open Source does not necessarily imply "free of charge".

We may want to have a short version for the Splash (if any) like
  ---
OpenOffice is 100% free software. Download from https://openoffice.org
  ---
and a longer one in the About page.

Comment 4 oooforum (fr) 2017-10-14 16:26:40 UTC

Good idea but...
the download link should be localized for each NL build

Comment 5 Matthias Seidel 2017-10-14 16:28:39 UTC

(In reply to oooforum (fr) from comment #4)
> Good idea but...
> the download link should be localized for each NL build

No problem, we do such things normally in the Pootle strings...