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From: Dale <rdalek1967@gmail.com>
To: gentoo-dev@lists.gentoo.org
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] Adding AdobeFlash-10{,.1} licenses to EULA group
Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 17:14:16 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4C1A9E38.8050206@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201006180006.53669.polynomial-c@gentoo.org>

Lars Wendler wrote:
> Am Mittwoch 16 Juni 2010, 14:45:21 schrieb Angelo Arrifano:
>    
>> On 16-06-2010 14:40, Jim Ramsay wrote:
>>      
>>> Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn<chithanh@gentoo.org>  wrote:
>>>        
>>>> I propose that this license be added to the EULA group. The previous
>>>> AdobeFlash-10 license is similar in this regard, and could possibly
>>>> also be added to that group.
>>>>          
>>> Agreed, on both points, and done.  Thanks for finding and airing this
>>> issue!
>>>
>>>        
>>>> One notable section is 7.6 in which Adobe reserves the right to
>>>> download and install additional Content Protection software on the
>>>> user's PC.
>>>>          
>>> Not like anyone will actually *read* the license before adding it to
>>> their accept group, but if they did this would indeed be an important
>>> thing of which users should be aware.
>>>        
>> I defend it is our job to warn users about this kind of details. To me
>> it sounds that a einfo at post-build phase would do the job, what do you
>> guys think?
>>      
> Definitely yes! This is a very dangerous snippet in Adobe's license which
> should be pretty clearly pointed at to every user.
>
>    

Could that also include a alternative to adobe?  If there is one.

Dale

:-)  :-)



  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-17 22:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-06-14 21:20 [gentoo-dev] Adding AdobeFlash-10{,.1} licenses to EULA group Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2010-06-16 12:40 ` Jim Ramsay
2010-06-16 12:45   ` Angelo Arrifano
2010-06-17 22:06     ` Lars Wendler
2010-06-17 22:14       ` Dale [this message]
2010-06-17 22:37         ` Chí-Thanh Christopher Nguyễn
2010-06-17 23:20           ` Lars Wendler
2010-06-18  1:42         ` Brian Harring
2010-06-18  6:10           ` Dale
2010-06-18  9:08           ` Lars Wendler
2010-06-18 10:16             ` Alec Warner
2010-06-18 13:58               ` Angelo Arrifano
2010-06-18 17:56                 ` Brian Harring
2010-06-19  2:29                   ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan
2010-06-23 18:41                 ` [gentoo-dev] " Domen Kožar
2010-06-24  5:59                   ` Thilo Bangert
2010-06-19  2:25               ` [gentoo-dev] " Duncan

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