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Yeah I don't know about that. In F/OSS there is traditionally no EULA to accept. There is a license to use/modify/share the software, and it may be a page or tw
by NoZebra120vClip 3y ago
Yeah I don't know about that. In F/OSS there is traditionally no EULA to accept. There is a license to use/modify/share the software, and it may be a page or two long, and most licenses are found in just a few categories, such as MIT, BSD, Apache, GPL. Literally none of these licenses, in their original forms, place any restrictions or conditions on how an end-user can use the software; they're aimed at developers and contributors' use and distribution of the source and binaries.
Also, I don't know how non-Ubuntu package management organizes software, but in Ubuntu, you need to make a conscious decision to include the "nonfree" type of software.
Now presumably for a Linux package manager, any installation action should hopefully import any license terms to a known, readable place for the user to peruse, before launch, if necessary.
Perhaps many Linux users don't care, as you say, but I know a lot more who are exquisitely sensitive to licensing and EULAs and will scrutinize this stuff a lot more than a Windows user who just gobbles shareware from C|NET.