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On Thursday 27 November 2003 19:50, Luke-Jr 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 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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In that case, there should be a (hopefully short) list of those licenses, and |
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only those licenses should be covered by the license-install-accept variable |
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in make.conf. It is not possible, or legal, for the system administrator to |
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accept licenses governing usage or redistribution on behalf of other users. |
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