On Wed, May 30, 2007 at 21:26:39 +0800,
Hikaru Amano <kagesenshi.87(a)gmail.com> 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.