Hi Josh, Josh Triplett wrote:
> Inspired by bug 689095, I'd like to suggest something like the following > as an addition to Debian Policy: > > ===== > Software in Debian should not prompt users to explicitly agree to > licenses, disclaimers, or terms of service in order to run that > software. I think we can justify this under the grounds that if a large portion of the archive starts to imitate this feature of Transmission then it would lead to a poor user experience. I'm surprised that the maintainer seems to be looking for support to raise this upstream before just asking them why the change was made, though. Don't most platforms' user interface guidelines discourage unnecessary dialogs already? Perhaps it would be possible to put the disclaimer in the main window when there are no downloads running, so users would have an opportunity to learn about what the law permits that way. Hope that helps, Jonathan -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-policy-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20121014222310.GA20287@elie.Belkin
