Re: Bug#68652 acknowledged by developer (dosemu has clickwrap license)

[Brian Ristuccia <brian@ristuccia.com>]

If the clickwrap license doesn't go away, dosemu should move to non-free.
Ridiculous laws in a handful of the United States notwithstanding, it's
usually not possible for one to make a contract between themselves and a bit
of software by clicking or typing their assent. Prepetuating this braindead
practice of restriction and intimidation by befuddlement in proprietary
software is bad enough; it has no place in Free Software.

On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 02:48:49AM -0500, Debian Bug Tracking System wrote:
> This is an automatic notification regarding your Bug report.
> 
> It has been closed by one of the developers, namely
> Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>.
> 
> Their explanation is attached below.  If this explanation is
> unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate
> message then please contact the developer directly, or email
> submit@bugs.debian.org or me.
> 
> Darren Benham
> (administrator, Debian Bugs database)
> 
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> From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
> Date: Sun, 6 Aug 2000 17:37:11 +1000
> To: 68652-done@bugs.debian.org
> Subject: Re: Bug#68652: dosemu has clickwrap license
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> On Sun, Aug 06, 2000 at 03:20:19AM -0400, Brian Ristuccia wrote:
> > Package: dosemu
> > Version: 1.0.1-3
> > 
> > These things are annoying. Make it go away. 
> > 
> >   The Linux DOSEMU, Copyright (C) 2000 the 'DOSEMU-Development-Team'.
> >   This program is  distributed  in  the  hope that it will be useful,
> >   but  WITHOUT  ANY  WARRANTY;   without even the implied warranty of
> >   MERCHANTABILITY  or  FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the file
> >   COPYING for more details.  Use  this  programm  at  your  own risk!
> > 
> >   By continuing execution of this programm,  you are stating that you
> >   have read the file  COPYING  and the above liability disclaimer and
> >   that you accept these conditions.
> > 
> >   Enter 'yes' to confirm/continue: yes
> 
> Bring it up with the upstream maintainers.  I shall respect their decision.

-- 
Brian Ristuccia
brian@ristuccia.com
bristucc@cs.uml.edu