[packagekit] license handling

[Stanislav Visnovsky]

Dňa Thursday 03 April 2008 15:35:32 Jesse Keating ste napísal:
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 14:05 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Now, how much of that sounds insane? :-)
>
> Pretty much all of it when you consider that licenses are typically a
> per user thing, rather than a per host thing.  Each new user on the
> system that tries to run specific software should have to accept or
> reject the licensing agreement.  For that reason, I feel pretty strongly
> that license agreement should come from the application itself at first
> launch by each user, and if the user doesn't accept the license, the
> program should fail to run.  Trying to do it at install time doesn't sit
> well with me from a legal stand point, nor from a stand point of
> "encouraging" vendors to use this method and interrupting what should be
> non-interactive tasks.

In openSUSE, we are obliged to show the license at the installation time of 
package. So this is a real issue for us.

Stano