Quoting Martin (2023-04-03 12:34:48) > Quoting Jonas Smedegaard <jo...@jones.dk>: > > Software that requires signing a contract is "non-free by proxy" which > > in Debian means "contrib". > > My assumption (which might be wrong, of course, and IANAL anyway) is, > that both ToU and PP are only about their linphone SIP service, *not* > about using the linphone program. Only the UI is buggy in that respect. > > > Software that tricks you into signing a contract despite not technically > > needed is non-free but might be easy to patch to become free. > > Yes, somehow linphone tricks me into clicking "I agree", but I consider > that to be an oversight by the UI designer/developer. > > But maybe you are right, and this really should be fixed for bookworm. > Shouldn't be difficult to patch the UI accordingly. > The software is GPL, so that change should be entirely legal.
Sounds like we do not (largely) disagree here, then :-) For the record, I do not think that the UX of linphone is deliberately harmful, I assume it is just an oversight (their _main_ usecase it as a client for their own network, which for whatever reason requires establishinbg a contract, and they simply forgot to refine the UX for non-default scenarios). I also imagine that fixing this is both simple and legal (and appreciated upstream and thus acceptable upstream). ...but yes, my main point here is that I do think this affects releasability with bookworm. - Jonas -- * Jonas Smedegaard - idealist & Internet-arkitekt * Tlf.: +45 40843136 Website: http://dr.jones.dk/ * Sponsorship: https://ko-fi.com/drjones [x] quote me freely [ ] ask before reusing [ ] keep private
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