Re: EULA as well: xsane

[Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>]

* Miriam Ruiz:

> 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.

I would support it too, provided that it's tied to a policy decision not
to accept works licensed under the AGPL into main.