On Sun, Jan 31, 2010 at 09:09:26AM -0800, Kyle Adams wrote:
> easier still would be to put ACCEPT_LICENSE="*" in your make.conf
Easier... arguably. But are you sure you want to accept ALL EULAs that
can ever be? What if I were to bundle some software that has a
two line EULA: "By installing this software you agree that I am not
responsible for anything breaking. And I can freely use computing
cycles on your computer for other purposes." It is in plain English.
Would you accept this EULA?
I accept Skype's EULA while compromising my standards because, all
things considered, it is the best way to communicate with family and
friends overseas. But in general I do not like it when software comes
with strings attached, and I try to avoid them.
The issue of whether EULAs are legally binding aside, just agreeing,
blindly, to any-and-all past-and-future contracts that unknown third
entities thrust at you is, in my opinion, considerably daft.
W
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Willie W. Wong ww...@math.princeton.edu
Data aequatione quotcunque fluentes quantitae involvente fluxiones invenire
et vice versa ~~~ I. Newton
