Bug#1033868: linphone-desktop: cannot use any account, without agreeing to terms

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Martin (2023-04-03 12:34:48)
> Quoting Jonas Smedegaard <jonas at jones.dk>:
> > Software that requires signing a contract is "non-free by proxy" which
> > in Debian means "contrib".
> 
> My assumption (which might be wrong, of course, and IANAL anyway) is,
> that both ToU and PP are only about their linphone SIP service, *not*
> about using the linphone program. Only the UI is buggy in that respect.
> 
> > Software that tricks you into signing a contract despite not technically
> > needed is non-free but might be easy to patch to become free.
> 
> Yes, somehow linphone tricks me into clicking "I agree", but I consider
> that to be an oversight by the UI designer/developer.
> 
> But maybe you are right, and this really should be fixed for bookworm.
> Shouldn't be difficult to patch the UI accordingly.
> The software is GPL, so that change should be entirely legal.

Sounds like we do not (largely) disagree here, then :-)

For the record, I do not think that the UX of linphone is deliberately
harmful, I assume it is just an oversight (their _main_ usecase it as a
client for their own network, which for whatever reason requires
establishinbg a contract, and they simply forgot to refine the UX for
non-default scenarios).

I also imagine that fixing this is both simple and legal (and
appreciated upstream and thus acceptable upstream).

...but yes, my main point here is that I do think this affects
releasability with bookworm.


 - Jonas

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