Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers

2012-10-18 Thread Jonathan Nieder
Josh Triplett wrote: > On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:27:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: >> I do think this is iffy from a DFSG #7 perspective, since it's forcing the >> user to agree to the additional license, but I'm not sure we've ever >> discussed that in general. > > That thought crossed my mind

Re: [IANA #616232] Registration of text/vnd.debian.copyright: a media type for machine-readable copyright files.

2012-10-18 Thread Charles Plessy
Le Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:08:08PM -0700, Russ Allbery a écrit : > > > > Optional parameters: > > revision - the revision number of the specification (digits.digits). > > Yup, that looks right. > > The comment or license fields may be used to quote discussions where > > redistribution

Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers

2012-10-18 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:27:47PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Russ Allbery writes: > > > To me, this feels like a specific instance of the general problem of > > excessive maintainer script prompting. > > Oh, I see why you didn't class it that way: this isn't something done by > the maintainer

Bug#690495: Prohibit click-through licenses or disclaimers

2012-10-18 Thread Josh Triplett
On Wed, Oct 17, 2012 at 08:17:05PM -0700, Russ Allbery wrote: > Josh Triplett writes: > > I don't intend this as a slippery slope; I very specifically want to > > cover the types of annoyances mentioned in the above paragraph, which > > almost no software in Debian actually includes. See the tran