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Re: EULA as well: xsane



2008/9/19 Michael Banck <mbanck@debian.org>:

>> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty
>> disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away.  This can be made
>> more obnoxious than one-time click-through EULAs, I fear.
>
> That doesn't mean we should accept those in our distribution.  We can
> make a policy decision that end-users should not have to deal with
> those.

It makes sense. The same way that we're not allowing GFDL packages
with invariant sections, we might not want this feature/bug of GPL to
be used for that either. I would support making such a decision.

Greetings,
Miry


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