Re: protestware xsnow

Salvo Tomaselli <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.debian.devel.general
Message-ID <CAOOnQAc6v34mTdzCwzFerNT0rhzgSN0t3CjgNrEv2keKTmcZ0Q@mail.gmail.com>
I took the liberty of opening such a bug report, since apparently running xsnow
in the wrong place can cause great harm to its users, who absolutely
did not volunteer for that.

https://lwn.net/Articles/1080157/

#1141182

Best

Il giorno mar 16 giu 2026 alle ore 19:41 Bill Allombert
<[email protected]> ha scritto:
>
> Le Sun, Jun 14, 2026 at 07:04:45PM +0300, Александр a écrit :
> > Hi Chris,
> >
> > Thank you for your clarification regarding the strict legal
> > interpretation of DFSG #5 and #6 applying solely to the license text.
> > I understand your point.
> >
> > However, I would like to look at this from a technical and quality
> > assurance perspective, rather than just a licensing one.
>
> In that case, I suggest you open a bug report against xsnow.
> debian-devel is not the right venue, the xsnow Debian maintainer
> might not be subscribed to debian-devel.
>
> Cheers,
> --
> Bill. <[email protected]>
>
> Imagine a large red swirl here.
>


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