On Thursday 27 November 2003 16:38, Jason Wever wrote: > On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:19:04 +0000 > > Luke-Jr <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > My $0.02 is that if this gets implemented, it should be put in so that > > > the default behavior is like portage is now, > > > > Since Portage as it is right now doesn't pay any attention to licenses, > > its legality could be questioned (as with the games issue before?) > > Then if we have vendors who say "you absolutely must interactively accept > our license agreement before using" or something similar, then we'd have > no choice but to limit those licenses in this feature.
Just to chip in my 2p to the thread that refuses to die. Why does the system administrator have to agree to any license before installing software? He is quite a separate person from the user and copyright law, and licenses like the GPL, only cover redistribution, not installation, so he need not concern himself with those either. Surely if programs have user restrictions then it is the responsibility of the program to display a clip wrap license for each individual user, otherwise how would they be aware one exists? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
