Re: EULA as well: xsane
"Thijs Kinkhorst" <thijs@debian.org> writes:
> On Fri, September 19, 2008 11:25, Michael Banck wrote:
>> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:58:03AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
>>> 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.
> In lenny we have none such packages that I know of. How about we start
> to make policy when there's a real problem to be solved, and spend our
> time fixing RC bugs meanwhile?
Uh, I can name several that use that aspect of the GPL just off the top of
my head. (bc and Emacs, for example.)
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Russ Allbery (rra@debian.org) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
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