On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 5:50 AM, Leo 'costela' Antunes <[email protected]> wrote:
> In the version of the transmission bittorrent client in wheezy there is > a disclaimer popup displayed on the first run, basically telling the > user "your responsibility", but with an "agree" button which may make it > look more like an additional license. For the record, this is the string that is printed when you start it for the first time: Transmission is a file-sharing program. When you run a torrent, its data will be made available to others by means of upload. You and you alone are fully responsible for exercising proper judgement and abiding by your local laws. Quit | I Agree That appears to be a statement of reality, so the buttons should read this instead: I am not part of reality | Yes, that is the sad reality :( > 1) does this qualify as breaking point 7 of the DFSG? (or, in fact, any > other point I may have overlooked). If yes, would renaming the button to > something like "I understand" improve the situation? I'm not sure but I don't think so. Personally I would suggest removing both buttons and adding a 'Close' button. Inform the user, leave it up to them to obey local laws or not as they desire. > 2) upstream probably does this to try and shift liability. Obviously > IANAL, but does this even make sense? Do we have any precedence to > convince upstream to drop this annoyance on the grounds that it's > useless? (and here I'm hoping it *is* useless) > > 3) this may be a question for -devel, but do we have a public stand on > click-through disclaimers or even EULAs? Somewhere we could point > upstream for the pros/cons/consequences of such things? I guess these would require legal advice from SPI (contact the DPL for that), unless someone on this list is aware of some precedent. -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6HoM=hkjdukdmz-dp6jxcwtnzrbqqs9gb2u-09c2xp...@mail.gmail.com
