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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, so |
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> he need not concern himself with those either. Surely if programs have user |
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> restrictions then it is the responsibility of the program to display a clip |
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> wrap license for each individual user, otherwise how would they be aware |
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> 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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Luke-Jr |
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Developer, Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org/ |
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