Hi ZaferXYZ,
Thanks for noting the open source projects in your change message: "About section of Opera points to nearly a dozen or more open source projects, like SQLite, Zlib, Ogg, OpenSSL and hunspell."
While that certainly helps clear up the issue, I still feel that a citation would be helpful (if not necessary). This change message won't be visible to visitors for very long, including others that are wondering about the license like I was. Also, many people wouldn't know to look to that about box for this evidence; I myself don't have a copy of Opera running, so it would take a while for me to come upon it.
How do you feel about adding a citation to the about box (or something similar found on the web)? In the meantime I've restored the "citation needed" message.
Benjaminoakes (talk) 14:52, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
- Yes, this is odd, I also couldn't find any reference directly stating that Opera uses open-sourced software or library. And I must agree about "about section", it's in the ballpark, it may not be a good source for reference. People without Opera browser can't possibly verify those claims. But I think I may have found references to support Opera's open-source library usage. These are official changelogs and they are clearly state various open-source library usage. Examples: SQLite (1), OpenSSL (1), Hunspell (1) ), which should be enough to prove that Opera uses open-sourced libraries. Yes, I know these are a bit indirect, I still couldn't find a simple statement like "Opera uses open-sourced libraries", so I have to leave this up to you.
- --ZaferXYZ (talk) 17:22, 27 June 2012 (UTC)
- Works for me. I added those as citations.
- For what it's worth, I didn't realize you responded right away. It's a little awkward to hold conversations with talk pages, but if you respond on the other person's page, they get notified. There may be a better way that I'm not aware of though. :)
- Benjaminoakes (talk) 00:28, 9 July 2012 (UTC)