Bug#696596: Marketplace EULA: replace the social contract by another text.

[Noah Meyerhans <noahm@debian.org>]

On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 02:19:06AM +0900, Charles Plessy wrote:
> > > If we absolutely have to have a EULA then something akin to the default
> > > MOTD would seem more appropriate, i.e.:
> > > 
> > >         The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software;
> > >         the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
> > >         individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
> > >         
> > >         Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
> > >         permitted by applicable law.
> > 
> > Agreed. We don't expect our users to agree to anything in the Social
> > Contract.
> 
> I agree that it more direct and accurate to point users at
> /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.  This said, having a link to our definition of Free
> software would be useful to users who are not familar with Debian.
> 
> How about:
> 
>        The programs included with the Debian GNU/Linux system are free software
>        as defined in <http://www.debian.org/social_contract#guidelines>; the exact
>        distribution terms for each program are described in the individual files
>        in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.
> 
>        Debian GNU/Linux comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent
>        permitted by applicable law.
> 
> I am filing this as a bug in the BTS to track the issue, with severity 'normal'
> because my gut feeling is that it is indeed confusing to display the DFSG as
> EULA, while the DFSG does not ask the user to agree to anything.  Thanks to
> James for the initial clarification by the way.

I've asked the www team to host the proposed text on www.debian.org.
See https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=1086579

If they can't/won't do that, we can consider hosting it on
cloud.debian.org.

noah