Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers

[Bill Allombert <Bill.Allombert@math.u-bordeaux1.fr>]

On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:07:23AM +0000, Bart Martens wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2012 at 11:39:03AM +0200, Bill Allombert wrote:
> > and in particular when they can be 
> > contrary to DFSG 6. (No Discrimination Against Fields of Endeavor) and
> > 7. (Distribution of License):
> > 
> >     7. Distribution of License
> >        The rights attached to the program must apply to all to whom the
> >        program is redistributed without the need for execution of an
> >        additional license by those parties.
> > 
> > The wording "By running this software, you agree that ..." is very close
> > to the execution of an additional license.
> 
> Then you admit that it may have legal effect. :-)

No, I am only stating that they pretend to.

> All depends on the shown text.
> 
> For example, the click-through disclaimer quoted by Paul on bug 689095 simply
> reflects reality/truth, as Paul explained well.  I see no conflict with the
> DFSG.  It is, in my opinion, perfectly reasonable to not remove this
> click-through disclaimer.  I'm not saying that Debian should preserve all
> click-through messages.  I'm just saying that each case should be looked at
> separately, without general rule in Debian about click-through messages.

Please, I wrote about "click-through agreement" and not "click-through disclaimer".
I have gone even as far as proposing to change "click-through agreement" to
"click-through disclaimer".

A statement starting by "By running this software, you agree that ..." is not 
a disclaimer.

Cheers,
Bill.