Re: responses to licensing discussion

Ned Lilly wrote:
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> The second point, forcing a click-through or some other mechanism
> before a user downloads/installs the software, gets at the same
> issue. As a developer, you only get the protection of UCITA if the
> user *agrees* to the license... right now, just having it in the
> tarball or on the CD doesn't meet that test. There needs to be some
> proactive mechanism that signifies user acceptance of the terms, or
> else the license is just words. The recent passage in the US of
> digital signature legislation affirms the various mechanisms by
> which you can do that.

How does this affect the presence of PostgreSQL on RedHat
distributions, where no such agreement is made? Would it require
an interface (like Netscape) where the first time psql is started
the terms are presented? How would that work if I justed wanted
the server (started like any other service - sendmail, httpd,
etc. through linuxconf) and used Access/ODBC as a frontend? Is
this requirement something new?

Just curious,

Mike Mascari