Re: End User License Agreement Using RPM?

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All -

Thanks to everyone for the help and tips, it is very appreciated and has
helped in solving my problem.

Thanks,

Steve

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Chris Ricker" <kaboom@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: <rpm-list@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2004 4:59 AM
Subject: Re: End User License Agreement Using RPM?


> On Thu, 5 Feb 2004, Panu Matilainen wrote:
>
> > > If you haven't done so check the JAVA rpm option on the SUN download
site
> > > and try it.
> >
> > You have to remember that unix-like systems are multi-user: Just having
> > the admistrator agree on some license doesn't necessarily mean you can
> > use it for your purposes. I think software asking the EULA on first
> > startup is the right thing to do on multiuser systems. Depends on the
> > license terms of course...
>
> Not to mention that the Sun EULA is trivially avoidable:
>
> [kaboom@d1000 kaboom]$ ls j2*
> j2re-1_4_2_03-linux-i586-rpm.bin
> [kaboom@d1000 kaboom]$ unzip -q j2re-1_4_2_03-linux-i586-rpm.bin
> warning [j2re-1_4_2_03-linux-i586-rpm.bin]:  67192 extra bytes at
beginning
> or within zipfile
>   (attempting to process anyway)
> [kaboom@d1000 kaboom]$ ls j2*
> j2re-1_4_2_03-linux-i586.rpm  j2re-1_4_2_03-linux-i586-rpm.bin
> [kaboom@d1000 kaboom]$
>
> Building it into the app (Netscape-style) is likely to be the only
effective
> solution
>
> later,
> chris
>
>
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