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On 11/29/03 Christian Birchinger wrote: |
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> A small thought about all this license default stuff. |
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> I think it should accept everything by default which doesn't |
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> ask the user to accept something on first launch or installer |
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> start. This is mostly everything which comes as source or in |
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> normal .tar.gz archives. The reason is that with this kind of |
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> software the user has to unpack everything anyway to read the |
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> LICENSE file or the README. |
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> In reality this are mostly games or "big" commercial apps. |
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> That's ok because those arent that many. What i would hate to |
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> see is that the user needs to accept licenses for stuff like djb |
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> ware (no i'm no fan of it it's just an example). |
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my 0.02ยข: add all non-problematic licenses to make.globals and add |
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several examples to make.conf for "fsf-only", "fsf+osi", "status-quo", |
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whatever-is-needed, that should cover all needs. |
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Marius |
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