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Bug 138831 - gstreamer has sick humor embedded in configure
gstreamer has sick humor embedded in configure
Status: RESOLVED NOTABUG
Product: GStreamer
Classification: Platform
Component: gstreamer (core)
git master
Other Linux
: Normal normal
: NONE
Assigned To: GStreamer Maintainers
GStreamer Maintainers
Depends on:
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2004-04-02 08:45 UTC by terry l. ridder
Modified: 2004-12-22 21:47 UTC
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Description terry l. ridder 2004-04-02 08:45:58 UTC 
tar -xzvf gstreamer-0.8.0.tar.gz
cd gstreamer-0.8.0
grep -i -e 'sissy' configure | less -S
Sissy ! By asking to not build the tests known to fail, you hereby waive your
right to customer support.  If you do not agree with this EULA, please press 
Ctrl-C before the next line is printed.  By allowing the next line to be printed, 
you expressly acknowledge your acceptance of this EULA

whoever put that in configure is one really sick person.
Comment 1 Andrew Sobala 2004-04-02 22:19:15 UTC 
ENOSENSEOFHUMOUR :P
Comment 2 terry l. ridder 2004-04-03 01:51:43 UTC 
this has more to do with professional appearance than a sense of humor.
if you desire for gnome to be taken seriously there is a need to appear
serious.

having been involved in a 7+ year legal nightmare, i am certain that
there is a lawyer out there who would love to test the above statement
in a court of law.
Comment 3 David Schleef 2004-04-03 02:25:22 UTC 
Please give references where seriousness in source code is causally related (or
even correlated with) being taken seriously.  What may seem obvious to you is
not obvious to me.

Also note that lawyers like to be paid, and so are likely to choose an easier
target than a silly comment that is, at most, a parody of a legal document.