Bug#501190: Reworded control
Btw, please keep in mind that the description issues I pointed out are
relatively unimportant compared to legal risk (and I haven't seen that
being discussed in debian-legal yet).
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:32:48PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:38:41AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote:
> > Package: moonlight-plugin-core
> > Architecture: any
> > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends}
> > Conflicts: moonlight
> > Description: open source clone of Microsoft Silverlight - core plugin
> > Moonlight is a free Silverlight clone, allowing Free Software systems to
> > run embedded web-browser objects or standalone code targetting Microsoft
> > Silverlight.
>
> Not true. Code targetting Microsoft Silverlight may as well depend on
> functionality not present in this package. And in fact the only notable
> example I remember (the Chinese Olympics videostreams) did.
>
> Again, I'm pointing to wine as an example, since the situation is the same.
> wine has this in its description:
>
> "This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work."
>
> Would you please make that clear? We don't want to deceive our users into
> thinking Silverlight is cross-platform, do we?
>
> > WARNING: This is an implementation of public API documentation published on
> > MSDN,
>
> Not true. Take it from de Icaza himself:
>
> "Microsoft will give us access to the Silverlight specifications: details
> that might be necessary to implement 1.0, beyond what is currently published
> on the web; [...]"
> http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Sep-05.html
>
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Robert Millan
The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and
how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we
still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all."
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