[packagekit] license handling

[Patryk Zawadzki]

On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 3:50 PM, Jesse Keating <jkeating at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 15:47 +0200, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
>  > In openSUSE, we are obliged to show the license at the installation time of
>  > package. So this is a real issue for us.
>  Is that even correct though, legal wise?  If I the admin for a system
>  install software and accept the license, then a multitude of users use
>  the software, have they also accepted the license?  One would think not.
>  On the Red Hat / Fedora side, we're extremely opposed to any sort of
>  interactive package installation.  All package installations must be
>  automatable and that throws out any accepting of licenses during the
>  transaction.

Same for PLD Linux. There are some packages like adobe-flash or
fonts-microsoft that pose problems when distributing but we only ship
installer packages for these that allow the user to build and install
the RPM locally.

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Patryk Zawadzki
PLD Linux Distribution