Re: [sane-devel] License pop-up

2019-09-18 Thread Ralph Little
Hi Abel, An interesting perspective, thank you. I should probably add that a hospital (or any critical environment) should be using certified equipment and software, although it is easy to imagine a situation where this is not so. For this reason, I think it is wise to at least state that there

Re: [sane-devel] License pop-up

2019-09-18 Thread abel deuring
I thought that I should give my 2 cents when you wrote your first mail in this thread but I got distracted by a number of completely unrelated things. TL; DR: I like your suggestion about a splash screen that reminds about the GPL and "no warranty claims" and that is always shown when Xsane starts

Re: [sane-devel] License pop-up

2019-09-17 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, On Tue, Sep 17, 2019 at 2:28 PM Olaf Meeuwissen wrote: > > No matter who's to "blame", Oliver, while still the author of (almost) > all the code, is no longer maintaining XSane. The SANE Project has > taken over (with Oliver's "blessing") and now continues the maintenance > of XSane. As

Re: [sane-devel] License pop-up

2019-09-17 Thread Olaf Meeuwissen
Hi Ralph, Ralph Little writes: > Hi, > Regarding my previous posting on this, I found the original, at times > heated, discussion at Debian: > > https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=132679 Read it, as well as the follow-up on your original mail until I replied. The bug report ended

Re: License pop-up

2019-09-09 Thread m. allan noah
Ha! I happen to work with the guy who filed that bug report. He's no longer particularly interested, but I agree with his original assessment. We should remove the popup, it is silly. allan On Sun, Sep 8, 2019 at 1:43 PM Ralph Little wrote: > > Hi, > Regarding my previous posting on this, I

Re: License pop-up

2019-09-08 Thread Ralph Little
Hi, Regarding my previous posting on this, I found the original, at times heated, discussion at Debian: https://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=132679 Oliver actual took part in that discussion and expressed his preference that the click-through license remain. However, they

[sane-devel] License pop-up

2019-09-01 Thread littlesincanada
Hi, One of the Debian patches currently being looked at (0110-deb_inhibit_clickthrough), disables the pop-up license agreement that xsane generates on first invocation. To continue, you must accept the license. Is it legal or proper for Debian to be doing this? Cheers, Ralph -- sane-devel