ucla/mwf — Issue #73: minor mwf.ucla.edu/attribution and MWF License have discrepancies
Author: Trott
Created: 2012-01-14 18:46:15+00:00
State: open

I'm looking at the version of the license in the develop branch for forthcoming 1.3 release. (Forthcoming, but not imminent.) I suspect the same issues are in the current 1.2 release.

The discrepancies are minor, but seems to me should certainly be corrected:

Following the License, I might have this on my page:

Powered by: The Mobile Web Framework

However, following http://mwf.ucla.edu/attribution, it would be:

Powered by the Mobile Web Framework

They also disagree about what should be hyperlinked. In the license, the hyperlink text is `The Mobile Web Framework` but in http://mwf.ucla.edu/attribution, it's just `Mobile Web Framework`.

Note that there are also discrepancies if you use the logo instead of text. The License has a colon while the attribution page has the word "the" before the logo.

A few other minor points:

* Putting `about` in single quotes in that section (in the phrase `'about' page`) of the license seems odd and at least arguably inconsistent with the use of quotes in the rest of the document. I would be inclined to get rid of the single quotes and capitalize the first letter instead: `About page`

* The parenthetical comment directing people to the attribution page is awkward and confusing. I would remove it and instead add a full sentence at or near the end of the section telling people that all the acceptable formats for attribution text are available at the attribution page.

* The section uses both of the terms `page` and `webpage`. The document, in my opinion anyway, should pick one or the other and stick with it.