Hi, I'm not a lawyer, and you must understand that before continuing reading this message. :-)
The title should be "forces user to agree with disclaimer", not "forces user to agree to terms of usage". On Sun, Oct 14, 2012 at 11:50:28PM +0200, Leo 'costela' Antunes 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. > > My questions: > > 1) does this qualify as breaking point 7 of the DFSG? (or, in fact, any > other point I may have overlooked). I see no "breaking point 7 of the DFSG" in the disclaimer quoted by Paul. > If yes, would renaming the button to > something like "I understand" improve the situation? It would still be a disclaimer. > > 2) upstream probably does this to try and shift liability. Obviously > IANAL, but does this even make sense? Yes, the upstream author seems to feel more comfortable with the disclaimer in the popup. > Do we have any precedence to > convince upstream to drop this annoyance The license allows Debian (or anyone) to remove the popup without additional permission from upstream. > on the grounds that it's > useless? (and here I'm hoping it *is* useless) It's not useless to upstream, but Debian can make its own choices on this. > > 3) this may be a question for -devel, but do we have a public stand on > click-through disclaimers or even EULAs? I suggest to look at such click-through disclaimers and EULAs case by case. > Somewhere we could point > upstream for the pros/cons/consequences of such things? The license allows Debian (or anyone) to remove the popup without additional permission from upstream. In this case I prefer to keep the popup if it is shown only once. I'm not suggesting to make that a general rule in Debian. Regards, Bart Martens -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
