Randy McMurchy wrote: > Bruce Dubbs wrote these words on 12/15/05 16:58 CST: > > >>How about (4) >> >>Link /bin/cat to a more command we create which then scrolls the license >>agreement and should log it too. > > > Sorry about being a PITA about this, but I'm not in favor of something > like this either. I suppose I look at it like this: the *owners* of > the software want folks who use it to have the license scroll by a page > at a time, then agree to the the license, before they install it. > > Doing something that defeats the intentions of the *owners* of the > software, seems to me to be on shaky ground. The way FOP is right now, > the license will scroll by one page at a time, the way the owners of > the software designed it to be. > > If a user is savvy enough to redirect the output of this command to > a logfile, (as is right now and not being told about this by BLFS) > with the added benefit that it automates the command, then it is > something the *reader* decided to do, not something that *BLFS* did, > or told the reader to do. > > I see a difference. Perhaps there isn't any though. But I try to give > the benefit of the doubt to the developer and owner of the software > when it comes to licensing issues.
I see your point, but I'd like to mention that the user doesn't have to read, of even see the license past the first page. Just hit q. After all, we do automatically answer yes for the user. I'd like to get other opinions. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
