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But many others would and do accept them. You want us to jump through hoops |
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to maintain what we have now so you don't have to. |
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On Thursday 27 November 2003 14:50, you wrote: |
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> > Just to chip in my 2p to the thread that refuses to die. Why does the |
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> > system |
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administrator have to agree to any license before installing |
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> > software? He is quite a separate person from the user and copyright law, |
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> > and licenses like the GPL, only cover redistribution, not installation, |
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> > so he need not concern himself with those either. Surely if programs have |
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> > user restrictions then it is the responsibility of the program to display |
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> > a clip wrap license for each individual user, otherwise how would they be |
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> > aware one exists? |
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> Other licenses (which I personally would probably never accept) may cover |
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> installation. |
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