Gentoo Archives: gentoo-dev

From: "Brett I. Holcomb" <brettholcomb@×××××××.net>
To: gentoo-dev@g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking
Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2003 00:13:16
Message-Id: 200311280012.hAS0C85D069441@mxsf14.cluster1.charter.net
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking by Luke-Jr
1 But many others would and do accept them. You want us to jump through hoops
2 to maintain what we have now so you don't have to.
3
4 On Thursday 27 November 2003 14:50, you wrote:
5 > > Just to chip in my 2p to the thread that refuses to die. Why does the
6 > > system
7 administrator have to agree to any license before installing
8 > > software? He is quite a separate person from the user and copyright law,
9 > > and licenses like the GPL, only cover redistribution, not installation,
10 > > so he need not concern himself with those either. Surely if programs have
11 > > user restrictions then it is the responsibility of the program to display
12 > > a clip wrap license for each individual user, otherwise how would they be
13 > > aware one exists?
14 >
15 > Other licenses (which I personally would probably never accept) may cover
16 > installation.
17
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Re: [gentoo-dev] License Checking Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o>