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> 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?
Other licenses (which I personally would probably never accept) may cover 
installation.
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Luke-Jr
Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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