[packagekit] license handling

Richard Hughes hughsient at gmail.com
Thu Apr 3 07:08:05 PDT 2008


On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 09:35 -0400, Jesse Keating wrote:
> Pretty much all of it when you consider that licenses are typically a
> per user thing, rather than a per host thing.

I totally agree with you on this.

> 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.

Right, although I don't want to make PackageKit unsuitable for some
distros because of this. So we need to establish if a eula in this
respect is actually legal. Can somebody get a statement from an _actual_
lawyer?

Richard.




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