Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-24 Thread Florian Weimer
* Russ Allbery: >> In lenny we have none such packages that I know of. How about we start >> to make policy when there's a real problem to be solved, and spend our >> time fixing RC bugs meanwhile? > > Uh, I can name several that use that aspect of the GPL just off the top of > my head. (bc and E

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Friday 19 September 2008 20:31, Russ Allbery wrote: > > In lenny we have none such packages that I know of. How about we start > > to make policy when there's a real problem to be solved, and spend our > > time fixing RC bugs meanwhile? > > Uh, I can name several that use that aspect of the GPL

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Russ Allbery
"Thijs Kinkhorst" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Fri, September 19, 2008 11:25, Michael Banck wrote: >> On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:58:03AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > >>> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty >>> disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Manoj Srivastava
On Fri, Sep 19 2008, Miriam Ruiz wrote: > 2008/9/19 Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty >>> disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away. This can be made >>> more obnoxious than one-time click-through EULAs, I f

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Johannes Wiedersich
On 2008-09-18 19:19, Robert Lemmen wrote: > while the EULA topic is already being discussed: Where is it already discussed? At least not on d-d, as far as I can see/find... Thanks, Johannes NB: Google finds only some ubuntu discussions for me... signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital si

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Mike Hommey
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:41:57AM +0100, Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:27:44AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > > In lenny we have none such packages that I know of. How about we start to > > make policy when there's a real problem to be solved, and spend ou

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Robert Lemmen
about click-through EULAs: On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 12:16:17PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > > It makes sense. The same way that we're not allowing GFDL packages > > with invariant sections, we might not want this feature/bug of GPL to > > be used for that either. I would support making such a dec

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 11:27:44AM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote: > In lenny we have none such packages that I know of. How about we start to > make policy when there's a real problem to be solved, and spend our time > fixing RC bugs meanwhile? of course, but the issue came up because of the mozill

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Florian Weimer
* Miriam Ruiz: > 2008/9/19 Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >>> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty >>> disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away. This can be made >>> more obnoxious than one-time click-through EULAs, I fear. >> >> That doesn't m

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Miriam Ruiz
2008/9/19 Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: >> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty >> disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away. This can be made >> more obnoxious than one-time click-through EULAs, I fear. > > That doesn't mean we should accept tho

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Fri, September 19, 2008 11:25, Michael Banck wrote: > On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:58:03AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > >> * Robert Lemmen: >> >>> still: can we make this a policy item? >> The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty >> disclaimers, without being allow

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-19 Thread Michael Banck
On Fri, Sep 19, 2008 at 01:58:03AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote: > * Robert Lemmen: > > still: can we make this a policy item? > > The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty > disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away. This can be made > more obnoxious than

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Robert Lemmen: > still: can we make this a policy item? The GPL version 2 permits it to display copyright notices and warranty disclaimers, without being allowed to patch them away. This can be made more obnoxious than one-time click-through EULAs, I fear. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Michael Banck <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The one click-through that went away in 0.995-3? > > If you are unsure of this and have to ask, you can look it up in the > changelog, maybe. I'm XSane's maintainer, in case you missed that. JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GNU/Linux Developer - <[EM

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Robert Lemmen
On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:18:52PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > > while the EULA topic is already being discussed: there is at least one > > other package in the debian archive which displays a click-through EULA, > > namely xsane. > > The one click-through that went away in 0.995-3? yes, i didn

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Michael Banck
Julien, On Thu, Sep 18, 2008 at 07:18:52PM +0200, Julien BLACHE wrote: > The one click-through that went away in 0.995-3? If you are unsure of this and have to ask, you can look it up in the changelog, maybe. Michael -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscrib

Re: EULA as well: xsane

2008-09-18 Thread Julien BLACHE
Robert Lemmen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, > while the EULA topic is already being discussed: there is at least one > other package in the debian archive which displays a click-through EULA, > namely xsane. The one click-through that went away in 0.995-3? JB. -- Julien BLACHE - Debian & GN