I don't understand your reference to "availability for money or not". As
far as I can tell, neither of us had mentioned money. If you think it is
relevant to this issue, could you elaborate?
>From "accept all GPLv3 licenses for this and future installations", I
understood your use case to be that you thought you needed to accept
these licenses before installation. I have explained why this is not the
case. Now you are drawing a parallel between previewing licenses and
previewing screenshots. But screenshots are useful to judge what normal
use of the software will be like -- whether it is a game, font, or other
application. Distribution licenses are not interesting in this way,
because normal use of the software does not include redistributing it.
So if you think this is still a valid issue, what we need first is a
valid use case.
** Changed in: software-center (Ubuntu)
Status: Invalid => Incomplete
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/992872
Title:
Can't read software license before installation, confusing "open
source" vs. "proprietary" mention
Status in “software-center” package in Ubuntu:
Incomplete
Bug description:
The current license information presented by USC is incomplete and
confusing.
It lists "open source", "proprietary" and "unknown" and doesn't
present the license itself which can lead to installing and using
software without knowledge of not following the conditions on such
licenses. This confusion is already reported in Bug #435183. This bug
is not about that, but rather a mechanism to view and refuse/accept
such licenses in full - particularly non-free licenses.
In the case of free open source software the specific license should
at least be mentioned ("GPL v3", etc.) but most importantly, linked to
and be available to accept/refuse before installation - perhaps even
having a "accept all GPLv3 licenses for this and future
installations).
Aplogies in advance if I lack the time to document other suggestions,
I've decided to file this bug with the above commentary only so other
can relate to it / augment it accordingly.
ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 12.04
Package: software-center 5.2
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.2.0-23.36-generic 3.2.14
Uname: Linux 3.2.0-23-generic x86_64
ApportVersion: 2.0.1-0ubuntu7
Architecture: amd64
Date: Tue May 1 17:16:32 2012
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 11.10 "Oneiric Ocelot" - Release amd64 (20111012)
PackageArchitecture: all
SourcePackage: software-center
UpgradeStatus: Upgraded to precise on 2012-03-06 (56 days ago)
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