[Neos] Neos login copyright notice (two last sentences)

[Aske Ertmann]

Hey Mathias

Thanks for the pointers. We have already worked on changing this text and you can follow the change here https://review.typo3.org/#/c/24506/. We will take your pointers into account when reviewing the change.

Best regards
Aske

On 02/12/2013, at 11.19, Mathias Bolt Lesniak, LiliO Design <mathias at lilio.com> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Firstly, congratulations with bringing Neos into Beta! It’s looking great! :-D
> 
> 
> I wanted to open a discussion about the two last sentences in the copyright notice when you log into Neos. It reads:
> 
> “Removing or obstructing the appearance of this notice is not nice and for the rest prohibited by law. Reading fine print can damage your eyes.”
> 
> 
> 1) The use of “and for the rest” bad English. It should rather be: “is not nice and is prohibited by law”
> 
> 2) The last sentence should be: “Reading THE fine print …”
> 
> 3) On a less grammatical note, I would suggest replacing both sentences with simply: “Removing or obstructing the appearance of this notice is prohibited by law.” based on these arguments:
> a) Keeping the copyright notice brief and to the point. (The entire two sentences could optionally be removed, as they are not required in GPL)
> b) Avoiding humor in a serious text.
> c) Humor may put some people off. It’s culture dependent and serious businesses may find it unprofessional and possibly offensive.
> d) Paraphrasing the text you’re “not allowed to remove this joke by threat of legal action”. That’s tacky.
> 
> 
> (I’ll post this as a bug report as soon as I have received some feedback to guide me - especially on point #3.)
> 
> 
> Keep up the good work! :-)
> 
> 
> Best wishes
> 
> Mathias Bolt Lesniak
> LiliO - www.lilio.no
> mathias at lilio.com
> 
> 
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