Bug 273501 - Tip of the day is wrong
Summary: Tip of the day is wrong
Status: RESOLVED DOWNSTREAM
Alias: None
Product: ktorrent
Classification: Applications
Component: general (show other bugs)
Version: unspecified
Platform: openSUSE Linux
: NOR normal
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Joris Guisson
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Reported: 2011-05-17 18:53 UTC by Jonathan
Modified: 2011-05-18 18:18 UTC (History)
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Description Jonathan 2011-05-17 18:53:38 UTC 
Version:           unspecified (using Devel) 
OS:                Linux

Hi!

The tip of the day tells me:
“Please respect the rights of copyright holders. Free Software also depends upon the principle of copyright.”

The second part of the sentence is just wrong. Free Software would work without copyright (in fact, there has even been public domain/BSD software even before the GPL has been released). The GPL utilizes copyright, but without copyright there would be simply no need for the GPL or copyleft. And it misses the point of Free Software, it is about freedom and not about development methods. Couldn't it just be changed to “otherwise you could get legal problems” or something like that?

Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:
Start KTorrent.

Actual Results:  
Wrong statement

Expected Results:  
True statement
Comment 1 Jonathan 2011-05-17 19:46:58 UTC 
Or something like “think about artists who cannot get along without income”.
Comment 2 Joris Guisson 2011-05-18 15:49:22 UTC 
KTorrent has no tip of the day
Comment 3 Joris Guisson 2011-05-18 18:18:04 UTC 
What distribution are you using ? Any tip dialog is a custom modification made by the distribution, because KTorrent hasn't got one. So bugs for this tip dialog should be reported to the distro.