On Mon, Oct 15, 2012 at 01:08:01AM +0200, Leo 'costela' Antunes wrote: > Josh, next time please keep me CC on such emails to avoid uncoordinated > work. I hadn't seen this and also wrote -legal for insight (and CCd > you), which might be a bit redundant.
Sorry about that; I did indeed intend to CC you on the mail, but apparently I forgot to do so before sending it. > On 15/10/12 00:23, Jonathan Nieder wrote: > > 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. Agreed. > That being said: IANAL, but I personally don't believe this sort of > click-through disclaimer does any good. It's just that this sort of > "what-if" argument doesn't seem strong enough for a case where upstream > believes it has legitimate grounds for worrying. On the other hand, upstream might just intend it as a warning for the benefit of users, rather than just a means of reducing liability for the developers. In that case, it need not consist of a click-through to have some useful benefit. > > 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. That seems like a good idea to me, and unobtrusive. The only problem I see: many users will launch Transmission for the first time when they click on a torrent link in a web browser or file manager, which will launch Transmission and immediately pop up the dialog to start a torrent; once the user starts that torrent, the disclaimer wouldn't display. However, what about a disclaimer sitting below the last torrent, always at the bottom of the list? - Josh Triplett -- 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/20121015000035.GA16425@leaf
