Florian Weimer writes ("Re: licensed under GPL-2 but need to accept license
dialog"):
> * Mark Weyer:
> > If its license is pristine GPL then you as a maintainer have the right to
> > remove the click-wrap functionality.
>
> You may not completely remove any such notifications, though. From
> the GPL, version 2:
The usual approach is to have the program display the licence and
warranty notice somewhere, at startup, but not to require any explicit
acceptance.
For a command line program, this can be done to the terminal:
$ bc
bc 1.06.95
Copyright 1991-1994, 1997, 1998, 2000, 2004, 2006 Free Software Foundation,
Inc.
This is free software with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
For details type `warranty'.
For a fullscreen or GUI program, you can often use the program's main
display area (which is often otherwise empty when the program is
started without filename arguments) for this kind of transient
notification. Run `emacs' (in a terminal or under X) or `xfig' to see
good examples.
> So some care is needed when making changes in this area.
Indeed. But the requirement for a click-through can and should be removed.
Regards,
Ian.
