Comment 304 for bug 269656

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PowerUser (i-am-sergey) wrote :

I have the following idea: system could display own license dialog for example during install instead. Citing GPL and other relevant licenses of bundled software. One of such cited licenses could be Firefox EULA as well. So in any scenario user have to accept licenses once per system installation (if user not agree to obey licenses of installed programs that's bad anyway?).

Pros:
- Users will be aware of licensing terms
- Acceptance of licenses is not overcomplicated for users.
- Regardless of number of used programs only one dialog.

Cons:
- I do not know if such solution will satisfy Mozilla.
- Someone still will be unhappy with such dialog (but it is not totally bad to make users aware of licensing terms of bundled software and system parts, isn't it?).
- Quite many text in one place to read before acceptance.
- Some users may not want to be bound by Firefox EULA (but they either have to agree or things will completely fail).

P.S. IMHO Mozilla doing somewhat wrong here since lots of these people who helped them to became popular now blames them strongly. Slightly stronger than they may want. However it's up to them... :(