[packagekit] EULA Prompts

Adrien BUSTANY madcat at mymadcat.com
Tue Dec 4 13:18:23 PST 2007


Donnie Berkholz a écrit :
> On 18:23 Mon 03 Dec     , Richard Hughes wrote:
>   
>>  * We silently agree to the licence when downloading and installing the
>> product, and show a Message() post transaction that we need to review
>> the licence and uninstall the software if we do not agree to it (legally
>> questionable)
>>     
>
> This sounds exactly like a shrinkwrap license to me, which seems to be 
> fairly well accepted, at least in the U.S. It feels technically dirty, 
> though it's also pretty much what Gentoo does.
>   
And what you get when you buy a laptop equipped with Windows, in any 
country. Just my two cents :-)

Adrien




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