On Mon, Apr 21, 2003 at 02:34:25PM +1000, Glenn McGrath wrote: > What if the full statment was shown once on installation, but not every > time the program is used, would that be an acceptable compromise to you ?
Again: this is the least of the problems; more important is 1: what are the real distribution terms? (Do we have legal permission to remove this? Most guessing says no.) and then 2: are these terms DFSG-free? It's not completely obvious whether requiring that a page of sponsorship information being shown on installation is DFSG-free; recent discussions on d-legal about GFDL invariant sections makes me guess no. It'd be a bad idea to recommend a "solution" that would itself be DFSG-unfree. This aside, it's very clear to me that responding to Hans is a complete waste of time. He's trolling. If he's just going to keep ranting aimlessly, I'd say Debian can only assume we're in violation of whatever the license is, that whatever the license is is undistributable, nuke the package and point people to a clearly free alternative (possibly written by far more reasonable folks), XFS. -- Glenn Maynard
