[packagekit] license handling

[Justin Haygood]

For "clickwrap" licenses, its the only way. That's how licenses on our 
not-so-esteemed competitor (Windows) are done sadly (which I'm sadly using 
atm...)

For instance: Flash Player, Java, etc... It's only for non open source 
software that doesn't have a license agreement at start if i remember 
correctly.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ken VanDine" <ken at vandine.org>
To: "PackageKit users and developers list" 
<packagekit at lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 8:50 PM
Subject: Re: [packagekit] license handling


> 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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