Ubuntu and Automatix

[Matthew East]

On Fri, 2006-03-17 at 05:53 -0700, Scott wrote:
> Andreas Lloyd spake thusly on 03/17/2006 03:31 AM:
> > Venkat Raghavan wrote:
> > 

> >>All the stuff installed by Automatix/EasyUbuntu/your favourite script is 
> >>either documented on the wiki or easily installable from Universe or 
> >>Multiverse. 

> > If one of these scripts - EasyUbuntu? - is safe and solid, then why not 
> > refer to it in the documentation and make it available in the 
> > repositories? The EasyUbuntu script itself is GPL, so it wouldn't that 
> > be a problem (though I actually had to download the sourcecode to 
> > confirm that).

> Ubuntu can't be offically associated with i as long as a script is going
> to allow you to install w32codecs & libsvdscss, t, lest they get
> themselves in deep lega doo-doo.

As Venkat said, everything installable via the script is installable
from an Ubuntu repository. The idea that making the stuff available in
the repositories is fine, whereas shipping a script which installs these
things is not fine, just makes no sense. What is required here are clear
warnings to ensure that the user makes an informed choice, and Ubuntu
complies with the rules.

For example:

matt at kalliope:~$ cat /usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/README.Debian 

libdvdread for Debian
---------------------

Many DVDs use css.  To play these discs, a special library is needed
to decode them, libdvdcss.  Due to legal problems, Debian cannot
distribute libdvdcss, but it is available on other places on the
internet.  If it is legal for you to use css, you can run
'/usr/share/doc/libdvdread3/examples/install-css.sh' at any time to
download and install it.

Matt
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