William Stein wrote:

> PROPOSAL 1: When installing official Sage spkg's, Sage should not
> interactively ask the user to agree to licenses.
> 
> Justification: (1) My understanding is that interactive license
> agreements are no more legally binding than non-interactive ones.  (2)
> Debian/Ubuntu doesn't require interactive license agreements --
> instead they require the user to add the non-free repo to
> /etc/apt/sources.list. (3) Interactive license agreements make
> automatic scripted installation of software difficult.  (4) Where do
> we draw the line?  I just gave a talk at Microsoft a few minutes ago,
> and for them, installing GPL'd software is far far more dangerous than
> installing Nauty.
> 
> VOTE:
>   [  ] Yes
>   [  ] No


Yes.


> 
> PROPOSAL 2: We add a restricted repository, and make installing spkg's
> in it require a non-default option, e.g.,
> 
>      sage -i -restricted nauty-x.y
> 
> The nauty, Kash, and several other spkg's would be moved there.
> 
> VOTE:
>   [  ] Yes
>   [  ] No

Yes.

Jason


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