On Sat, 2003-04-19 at 23:41, Glenn Maynard wrote: > 1. Is software licensed in the manner Hans intends DFSG-free? That is, > is it DFSG-free to require that interactive programs output a full
NON-interactive programs. mkreiserfs is not interactive. It is passed arguments on the command line, makes a file system, and exits. If there actually is a page full of credits in that usage, then there are very good reasons to remove it. It makes it very difficult to use in shell scripts. It makes it difficult to use on terminals w/o limitless scroll back. It makes it difficult to find error messages, both from it and other commands. There is a serious problem with $CMD if the common usage of $CMD turns out to be: $CMD $ARGS > /dev/null 2>&1 If I can't legally fix $CMD, I doubt that $CMD is DFSG-free.
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