https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=424679
Bug ID: 424679
Summary: Windows installer erroneously requires accepting the
GPL
Product: digikam
Version: unspecified
Platform: Microsoft Windows
OS: Microsoft Windows
Status: REPORTED
Severity: normal
Priority: NOR
Component: Bundle-Windows
Assignee: [email protected]
Reporter: [email protected]
Target Milestone: ---
digiKam-7.0.0-Win64.exe
The installer says “If you accept the terms of the agreement, click I Agree to
continue. You must accept the agreement to install digiKam 7.0.0.” and has only
an “I Agree” button to continue.
Yet clause five of the GPLv2 says,
You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it.
(If you want to modify and distribute it you need to accept it, but that’s not
the case for the installer alone.)
The most common solution for this that I’ve seen in installers is to make it
informational only: “I Agree” button becomes “Next”, and the explanatory text
above changes to say something like “The License Agreement is provided for your
information only.”
For reference, https://github.com/darktable-org/darktable/issues/5792 is one of
the other issues I’ve made (I’ve filed quite a few of these
GPL-compliance-in-installers bugs!), showing approximately the NSIS code that
will be necessary to fix this issue.
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