tag 615947 wontfix
thanks
"Andrew O. Shadoura" <[email protected]> writes:
> Package: idn
> Version: 1.18-1
> Severity: wishlist
> Tags: upstream
>
> GPLv2 says:
> 2 c) If the modified program normally reads commands interactively when
> run, you must cause it, when started running for such interactive use in
> the most ordinary way, to print or display an announcement including an
> appropriate copyright notice and a notice that there is no warranty (or
> else, saying that you provide a warranty) and that users may redistribute
> the program under these conditions...
>
> So in my understanding --quiet option can be safely taken as default.
The 'idn' tool is licensed under GPLv3 which says:
If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short
notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:
<program> Copyright (C) <year> <name of author>
This program comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `show w'.
This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `show c' for details.
The hypothetical commands `show w' and `show c' should show the
appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, your
program's commands might be different; for a GUI interface, you would
use an "about box".
The 'idn' tool does not print exactly that text, but I believe the
spirit is the same. Possibly the text printed by 'idn' should be better
aligned with GPLv3, but that would be a separate issue.
The purpose of --quiet is to silence these messages. If silence was the
default the parameter wouldn't have any purpose.
Summarizing, without any argumentation to invalidate the following
points, I don't see any reason to change the default behaviour and hence
I'm tagging the bug as wontfix. More discussion is still welcome though
if I misunderstood something in your request.
1) Printing a blurb is intentional and suggested by the GPLv3.
2) The behaviour can easily be toggled by --quiet.
3) I don't see what problem is caused by this.
4) Many other tools behave the same (gdb, bc) and consistency is good.
5) Having a --quiet parameter that doesn't do anything is confusing.
/Simon - wearing my upstream libidn developer hat and not the libidn
debian package co-maintainer hat.
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