On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 21:26:39 +0800, Hikaru Amano <kagesenshi.87@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > I'm not sure if i missed it .. anyway .. here goes > > it would be useful to Third Parties if RPM have the ability to ask for > License Agreement before installing their package. I'm not a lawyer > but I believe this is useful in legal related stuff when distributing > softwares. I have seen a few RPM that are stored .bin just for the > sake of license agreement (Sun Java is the easiest example) and with > RPM having (optional) license agreement before installation , this > would reduce their worries bout licensing when packaging app for > Linux. Whether or not this actually constitutes an agreement is questionable. It will potentially break scripting. > > and ... Linux newbies can avoid the terminal more (I know this sounds > silly, the moment somebody says open terminal and run "chmod +x > file.bin", certain users freaks out , double clicking RPM is easier to > explain ). Double clicking on an rpm file actually does an install?! Ouch. That is a bad idea. > > any comments? If someone wants to have some potentially unenforceable EULA, they should do it at the point they hand their customer the file, not when they install it. -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
