[packagekit] license handling

[Ken VanDine]

So how does openSUSE show that license to each user of the software, not
just the admin?  Surely the sysadmin can't legally accept the terms for
each user of a system.

--Ken

On Thu, 2008-04-03 at 15:47 +0200, Stanislav Visnovsky wrote:
> 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
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