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On Thursday 27 November 2003 16:38, Jason Wever wrote: |
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> On Thu, 27 Nov 2003 16:19:04 +0000 |
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> Luke-Jr <luke-jr@g.o> wrote: |
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> > > My $0.02 is that if this gets implemented, it should be put in so that |
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> > > the default behavior is like portage is now, |
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> > Since Portage as it is right now doesn't pay any attention to licenses, |
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> > its legality could be questioned (as with the games issue before?) |
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> Then if we have vendors who say "you absolutely must interactively accept |
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> our license agreement before using" or something similar, then we'd have |
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> no choice but to limit those licenses in this feature. |
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Just to chip in my 2p to the thread that refuses to die. Why does the system |
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administrator have to agree to any license before installing software? He is |
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quite a separate person from the user and copyright law, and licenses like |
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the GPL, only cover redistribution, not installation, so he need not concern |
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himself with those either. Surely if programs have user restrictions then it |
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is the responsibility of the program to display a clip wrap license for each |
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individual user, otherwise how would they be aware one exists? |
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