Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers
On Sunday 14 October 2012 23:50:21 Josh Triplett wrote:
> =====
> Software in Debian should not prompt users to explicitly agree to
> licenses, disclaimers, or terms of service in order to run that
> software. This includes prompts to agree to Free Sofware licenses
> (since such licenses do not require user agreement), warranty or
> liability disclaimers, notices about possible legal issues, or
> exhortations to use the software in any particular way. Software
> designed to interact with a third-party service may pass through the
> terms of service for that third-party service if required by that
> service.
> =====
What's next? prohibiting 'tip of the day' kind of dialogs? First run wizards?
Or warnings that this is a dangerous/experimental/developer/debugging tool
that might eat your dog if you aren't careful?
Note also that there for each case of such a thing is two people to actually
acknowledge its existance. 1) the upstream author. and 2) the debian
maintainer. If both of them for whatever reason thinks that the right thing
is to have a click-thru disclaimer, then I think we by default should accept
it, and if in some cases we think it is very wrong use our defined processes
in debian to deal with such things on a case by case basis.
/Sune
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You either should ping a wordprocessor, or have to cancel a EIDE mouse, this
way from the control file within Outlook you neither can ever open the
desktop, nor must enable the printer over the serial DLL file to a USB site of
a icon of a SCSI GUI in order to turn off the sound board.
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