On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 11:08:18AM +0200, Sune Vuorela wrote: > On Sunday 14 October 2012 23:50:21 Josh Triplett wrote: > > ===== > > Software in Debian should not prompt users to explicitly agree to > > licenses, disclaimers, or terms of service in order to run that > > software. This includes prompts to agree to Free Sofware licenses > > (since such licenses do not require user agreement), warranty or > > liability disclaimers, notices about possible legal issues, or > > exhortations to use the software in any particular way. Software > > designed to interact with a third-party service may pass through the > > terms of service for that third-party service if required by that > > service. > > ===== > > What's next? prohibiting 'tip of the day' kind of dialogs? First run wizards? > Or warnings that this is a dangerous/experimental/developer/debugging tool > that might eat your dog if you aren't careful?
I don't intend this as a slippery slope; I very specifically want to cover the types of annoyances mentioned in the above paragraph, which almost no software in Debian actually includes. See the transmission bug I linked to in the original bug submission. If you installed something from Debian main, I think you'd find it rather upsetting to run that software and get a prompt saying "By running this software, you agree that ..." with an "I Agree" button. This suggested policy change tries to cover cases like that; nothing more. - Josh Triplett -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121017224154.GA4598@jtriplet-mobl1
