Tanguy Ortolo <tanguy+deb...@ortolo.eu> writes: > Mark Carroll, 2013-09-05 19:12+0100: (snip) >>Does free software ideology really have to infect my notes on arranging my own >>household budget and what books I plan to get around to reading? > > Please stay polite when reporting a bug. If I was a bit more touchy, I > would have stopped reading here and close this bug report with this only > explanation: “no insults or bashing”. > > BTW, if you are really afraid of being “infected” by our “free software > ideology”, I would strongly suggest that you stop using Debian and > choose a proprietary system instead, because Debian has been affected > for too long to be saved.
I am sorry that you took umbrage, but I actually chose my words more carefully than that: it is my notes that I wrote of, not myself. I've been happily using Debian since 0.93R6 and like the idea of the GPL; I just think it's going surprisingly far, without some larger policy decision that perhaps I missed, to insist that the free licensing extends to the information processed by the software too. It's like if I installed gcc and was asked to say that all the code I compile with it has to be noncommercially shareable, or likewise with apache and web pages. It's not unthinkable, but it's weird to spring this on people in this way. >>Please let >>users easily opt out of having to do this, even if that's simply by more >>easily aborting the installation. > > # dpkg-configure dokuwiki > > When you are asked to choose a license, pick “CC-BY-NC-ND”. ... which still freely allows noncommercial sharing. > Or, if you want to invent your own license, edit > /etc/dokuwiki/license.php to add one, then edit /etc/dokuwiki/local.php > to change $conf['license']. If you want no license at all, define a null > license with empty string as name and URL. All I'm suggesting is that, if no 'private' license is to be offered by the installer, then that back-out be made rather clearer and easier. The installation script doesn't complete without a surprise question requiring me to agree to something I have no intent to (whichever option I pick) and that no other Debian packages that do forms of content management have ever asked me, and I'm kind of stuck in the middle of the script until I do (not even control-C seems to do anything). > As there is no bug here since the solution you look seems to exist, I am > closing this bug reports. Thank you for the instructions; of course, I don't agree that the bug is at all non-existent, but I must grant that you are far more polite and responsive than many other maintainers. At least you've pointed the way to alternative ways to install. -- Mark -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
