Btw, please keep in mind that the description issues I pointed out are relatively unimportant compared to legal risk (and I haven't seen that being discussed in debian-legal yet).
On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:32:48PM +0200, Robert Millan wrote: > On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 12:38:41AM +0100, Jo Shields wrote: > > Package: moonlight-plugin-core > > Architecture: any > > Depends: ${shlibs:Depends} > > Conflicts: moonlight > > Description: open source clone of Microsoft Silverlight - core plugin > > Moonlight is a free Silverlight clone, allowing Free Software systems to > > run embedded web-browser objects or standalone code targetting Microsoft > > Silverlight. > > Not true. Code targetting Microsoft Silverlight may as well depend on > functionality not present in this package. And in fact the only notable > example I remember (the Chinese Olympics videostreams) did. > > Again, I'm pointing to wine as an example, since the situation is the same. > wine has this in its description: > > "This is still a work in progress and many applications may still not work." > > Would you please make that clear? We don't want to deceive our users into > thinking Silverlight is cross-platform, do we? > > > WARNING: This is an implementation of public API documentation published > > on > > MSDN, > > Not true. Take it from de Icaza himself: > > "Microsoft will give us access to the Silverlight specifications: details > that might be necessary to implement 1.0, beyond what is currently published > on the web; [...]" > http://tirania.org/blog/archive/2007/Sep-05.html > -- Robert Millan The DRM opt-in fallacy: "Your data belongs to us. We will decide when (and how) you may access your data; but nobody's threatening your freedom: we still allow you to remove your data and not access it at all." -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]