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regarding iceweasel: about dialog has bogus 'license' text
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Package: iceweasel
The dialog displayed when selecting the Help -> About menu says 'All
rights reserved'. That's just wrong.
The page accessed via the about: URL has a link to about:license,
which has the correct information. The dialog should say something
similar.
Also, the weasel looks like it wants to bite something.
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Version: 3.5-1
On Sun, Jan 28, 2007 at 04:42:52PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
> * Andrew Suffield ([email protected]) wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 15, 2007 at 07:57:00PM -0500, Eric Dorland wrote:
> > > I'm getting some pushback from upstream on this actually and on second
> > > thought I'm leery to fuddle with someones copyright assertion, as
> > > innocuous as it may be. I'm going to wait for upstream to make a
> > > call.
> >
> > I find it deeply amusing that a supposedly free software project cites
> > a list of proprietary software examples (for which all rights *are*
> > reserved) when trying to justify what their license text says.
>
> I'm glad you're amused. I find it very frustrating.
>
> > I find it even more amusing that they're willing to expend pages and
> > pages of discourse for what is little more than a documentation
> > inconsistency that could be fixed by copying a couple of lines from
> > the about: text to the dialog text. In fact, I cannot imagine any
> > compelling reason why these two things should not be identical - it's
> > not like the about: text wouldn't fit.
>
> Hopefully I can convince them.
They left the All rights reserved, but added a link to the licensing
information, which points to about:license, that lists most of the
licenses that apply to the various pieces in iceweasel.
I think we can close this bug.
Mike
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