Explain differences between this repo and the corporate project

[fulldecent]

To reduce confusion, improve transparency, and fairly introduce the other project

Questions	Answers
Branch?	develop
Description?	Explain difference between this repository and the company product, which both have the same name and version numbers but are different products
Type?	improvement
Category?	FO / BO / CO / IN / WS / TE / LO / ME / PM
BC breaks?	no
Deprecations?	no
How to test?	Read markdown file index.md
UI Tests	not applicable
Fixed issue or discussion?	Fixes #36055
Related PRs	none
Sponsor company	William Entriken, Pacific Medical Training

[prestonBot]

Hello @fulldecent!

This is your first pull request on the PrestaShop project. Thank you, and welcome to this Open Source community!

[prestonBot]

Hi, thanks for this contribution!

I found some issues with the Pull Request description:

• The category should be one of these: BO, CO, FO, IN, LO, ME, PM, TE or WS (Read explanation)

Would you mind having a look at it? This will help us understand how interesting your contribution is, thank you very much!

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[matks]

I am sorry but

• the content listed here is not accurate
• I am against putting this in the README

This README is the README of prestashop/prestashop which is a software project. For the OSS project stuff we have https://www.prestashop-project.org/ which was created for this purpose.

I prefer to keep things in the right place 😉 and not mix them

[fulldecent]

Thank you for your review, @matks. Can you please justify

the content listed here is not accurate

?

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Surely there will be some confusion between the PrestaShop 8.1.5 product released in this repository and the PrestaShop 8.1.5 product released on PrestaShop.com.

If there is a more correct way to explain what I have tried in this PR, please give me a another chance to correct the errors and propose how we can transparently and constructively explain this in our README here.

[matks]

@fulldecent Long story short, PrestaShop project and PrestaShop company have been the entity for around ten years, a differenciation was initiated in 2022 but there are plenty things who are still merged.

For example the brand PrestaShop is solely owned by PrestaShop SA.

I'm sorry the only accurate answer 😅 is "it's complicated". If I had to go through each item (the brand, the software, the website, the policy...) I would need to write a hundred line statement.

Another example: every tool or service being used to carry out the project (GitHub, DockerHub, Crowding) are being paid by PrestaShop SA but their usage is made available to all project members.

Also some services like https://api.prestashop-project.org/ are being deployed by PrestaShop SA team although the code is open https://github.com/PrestaShop/distribution-api

I checked your website 😉 and I see you come from the blockchain world where I think things are 100% clear and un-ambiguous. I'm sorry I'm afraid for PrestaShop things are not as clear as they are for ETH for example.

(I anticipate more questions, I'm going on holidays this evening and I won't answer for around 10 days 😄 so if you don't get another answer from me in the next days it's not I'm ignoring you, just enjoying my vacations)

[matks]

That being said I really prefer we keep the README for the software project and bring that kind of content in https://www.prestashop-project.org/ 😉

[fulldecent]

Thank you, have a great vacation!

Yes you are right, before that I was at Google and worked on Linux 👋.

Updated PR to greatly simplify things. Hopefully it now says only the necessary things that people will need to know.

[Hlavtox]

@matks I think the current version is alright. :-)

There are endless issues regarding this, if this clears it up for some of the poeple, it's at least something.