Xarchiver 0.5.0rc1 released

[Christoph Wickert]

Am Mittwoch, den 29.10.2008, 11:05 -0700 schrieb Brian J. Tarricone:
> Christoph Wickert wrote:
>
> > I will ether patch out the donators menu and/or we will switch to
> > Squeeze in the Fedora Xfce spin. I'm pretty sure I will get trouble with
> > fedora-legal if I added the donators menu. Same for other distros I
> > think.
> 
> Now this is just silly.  Personally I wouldn't do what Giuseppe wants to 
> do, but what's wrong with that?

The main problem I see is that the websites are hardcoded in the app and
cannot be changed.
What if the content on the website is changed to something like
extremist political statements, warez, child porn, or just something we
can't subscribe to? What if a website gets compromised and turns into a
source for Trojans and viruses? Once the package is released nether
Guiseppe nor the maintainers from the distros can withdraw it.

>   Sounds like he just wants to give extra 
> recognition to people who have contributed.  

To me this sounds totally different: "Your name and website here" does
not sound like a call for participation but like an offer for
advertisement. IMO it targets sponsors, not contributors. 
As you said before: If it's about contribution, it should be named that
way, if it is about donations, then it should be clearly named "Donate"
too.

> (Personally I'd put all 
> this stuff on a tab of the about dialog, or *maybe* even give it a 
> dialog of it's own, and not put it directly in a menu in the main UI, 
> but that's just me.)

+1, so it's not only you but also Ali and me.

> This kind of poor attitude is the kind of thing that could potentially 
> turn contributors and donors away.

Personally I would not contribute in a project that annoys people with
an ad-ware like menu.

> Legal problems?  For including a name and a link to someone's webpage in 
> a piece of software?  Please leave the armchair legal analyses to actual 
> lawyers.  This is a legitimate mailing list, not Slashdot ^_~.

Ok ok: From a legal POV you are right. Somebody pointed me to startdict,
which is already in Fedora and also displays random weblinks and ads. 
But we are responsible for the software we ship and if something in this
software links to an arguable website, people will make us hold
responsible for that too. As a package maintainer I don't want to bear
that risk.

Regards,
Christoph
> 
> 	-brian