Hi, On Fri, 26 Sep 2008, Alberto Passalacqua wrote:
IMHO the best solution would be to ship all packages that allow redistribution (1) without a note inside the general EULA (2) so that the media could ship with a user friendly EULA.
I still think those speaking of "user unfriendly EULA" should be ignored, keeping the DVD as it is. However, I would agree with the idea of letting the users download the additional packages if a specific set of links (1-click?) or a specific application to do that will be put right on the desktop.
A sort of "Install restricted software and drivers" tool would probably do the job.
If you would be aware of the huge enforcement of Novell with "pushing" openSUSE at the U.S. market (in real, not already "market", but the pre-stage "publicity"), you would understand that the main goal is to achieve "public acceptance". So it would be very helpful if the EULA could explicitely state the extreme freeness I have suggested earlier. Viele Grüße Eberhard Mönkeberg (emoenke@gwdg.de, em@kki.org)