[packagekit] license handling

[Justin Haygood]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Matthias Clasen" <matthias.clasen at gmail.com>
To: "PackageKit users and developers list" 
<packagekit at lists.freedesktop.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2008 9:52 PM
Subject: Re: [packagekit] license handling


> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 5:15 PM, Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com> 
> wrote:
>> On Thu, Apr 3, 2008 at 6:54 PM, Klaus Kaempf <kkaempf at suse.de> wrote:
>>  >  So please allow the license prompt when updating packages.
>>  >  Without it, PackageKit might not be usable for openSUSE.
>>
>>  We just cannot (and will not) do the EULA on upgrade - what if there
>>  is no user present and it's automatic and unattended?
>
> What happens to unattended updates if the policy requires the user to
> enter a password ?
> I guess the simplest answer here would be an update that requires
> user-interaction fails when run unattended. Not the nicest user
> experience, but hey, they chose to install that proprietary stuff...

openSUSE doesn't prompt licenses for updates, just new installations.

>
>>  Also, I would appreciate it if you didn't bully the issue with
>>  statements like "...without it, PackageKit might not be usable for
>>  openSUSE"
>>
>>  The reason comments like this won't work is:
>>
>>  * I don't use openSUSE
>>  * I don't like software with EULAs
>>  * I don't think per-system EULAs like this are legal
>>  * It makes the code massively more complicated.
>
> I guess we all don't get to pick our companies legal policies, so
> flaming the opensuse guys over this won't help us.
>
> While I fully agree that install-time EULAs are icky, and don't ever
> want to see them in Fedora, I think that it would be good if we could
> come up with a way to support this. After all, being
> cross-distribution is one of the explicit goals of PackageKit.
>
>
> Matthias
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