On May 18, 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > If this is true, then it should be considered a bug. I'll investigate > later... You're not required to accept the GNU GPL to run the code. The GNU GPL explicitly says that anything but copying, distribution and modification are outside of its scope, and that the act of running the program is not restricted. If you have to accept the terms of the GNU GPL in order to run the program, that's a bug. But then, by the time you get to firstboot, you've already run a lot of code, and you can easily skip running firstboot, for example, by performing a kickstart install. I haven't seen firstboot running for quite a few releases :-) That said, if firstboot presents you with the GNU GPL and shuts the system down if you don't agree with it, that's a bug. If it's some other license (e.g., /usr/share/doc/fedora-release-*/eula.txt), then it's ok, since that's what sets the terms of use of the collection of software called Fedora Core. #include <std/IANAL> -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
