Ben Finney writes ("Re: licensed under GPL-2 but need to accept license dialog"): > Ian Jackson <ijack...@chiark.greenend.org.uk> writes: > > But the requirement for a click-through can and should be removed. > > Whether a particular “build an installer” toolkit has the option to > present a license text, without giving the impression that active > acknowledgement is a condition of the license, is something to discuss > with the developers of such toolkits. > > Of course, the installer toolkit for a work in Debian also needs to be > free software (doesn't it?),
It needs to be in main, even, of course. > so if the toolkit doesn't have that capacity, someone can add it and > hopefully contribute that improvement upstream for benefit of future > works. I'm not aware of any such "installer toolkits" in Debian that like to ask user confirmation of licences. I think that the OP's case, like all the rest that we will encouter, is a case of what might be termed memetic contamination. Someone with a different background to us saw that lots of the programs they use have these click-through licences, and concluded that they were necessary, or at least, the best or proper thing to do. Gently raising their awareness level is probably the right approach. Ian.