At 12:49 PM -0800 5/1/2000, Nick Moffitt wrote: >Quoting Yann Dirson: > > * The sentence `You also indicate your acceptance by retaining the > > Module on your computer for more than one day.' may have strange > > interactions with the download of (eg.) a precompiled binary package > > from debian.org/.../non-free/ - the downloader may get a large bunch > > of software, and may not physically have the time to carefully read > > all the licences - if he only reads the licence 2 days later, even > > before ever thinking of running the program, does this mean he has > > implicitely accepted a licence he did not read ? > > This is the same tactic the MICROS~1 Windows EULA takes: they >put the license inside the package and say "by opening the package, >you agree to..."
BTW: I wasn't trying to use a "tactic". I just hadn't thought through what it meant for the new means of distribution where you basically load everything onto your disk and THEN at a later date choose to install. The model I had in my head was someone explicitly FTPing the archive file and then unpacking it. I'm going to rework the section. If you have any suggestions on what a good trigger condition would be, let me know. Thanks, Ross. Dr Ross N. Williams ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), +61 8 8232-6262 (fax-6264). Director, Rocksoft Pty Ltd, Adelaide, Australia: http://www.rocksoft.com/ Protect your files with Veracity data integrity: http://www.veracity.com/
