[Koha-devel] New Koha Logo

[MJ Ray]

Mike wrote:
> I prefer "Open Source Library System". It IS Open source as it's under
> an open source licence. [...]

For a long time, we've had firms like Intel using "open source"
to mean "look but don't touch". We've also got other groups looking
to spin the term into something which covers their restricted software
too, which really doesn't help. Even UK government departments have
adopted conflicting definitions for it in the past.

The "Open Source Initiative" was an initiative to get a trademark on
the term "open source". It failed and I think it's time to face
that truth and speak about free software again. There is no legal
measure we can use to avoid explaining what we mean. Trying to do
so leaves us open to abuse by people with bigger marketing budgets.

> The term "Free" is being used less. Free also refers to non-open source
> code that you don't pay for. It's just infortunate the English does not
> have an perfect match for "libre".

That's not what I'm seeing. Maybe it's different where you are,
still with no local Free Software Foundation. Both "open" and
"source" have many other meanings and "source" really isn't
obvious to most end users, in my experience. At least in free
software, there's only one confusing word.

To be honest, the tagline on the logo doesn't bother me
greatly, but please make a logo available under a free software
licence ASAP (GPL?) so that I can localise it as needed, like as
part of the koha release.

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