Comment 4 for bug 315646

Free software (and Ubuntu in particular) should not be trying to impose clickwrap contracts on end-users. Our software is licensed under a copyright license. Any terms that don't work in a copyright license (e.g. because they try to control something other than whether users can copy the software) do not belong in free software.

If the software is actually free, then a user who disagrees with the proposed clickwrap license is free to decline it, and then go into his or her own machine and modify the software to eliminate the clickwrap license. Being able to remove bugs, misfeatures, and impediments from the software is the essence of the freedom that we grant to every user. I have personally done this to several attempted free software EULAs, including on Fedora, a Dell netbook, and on Mozilla Firefox. See: http://www.toad.com/gnu/sysadmin/ and search for EULA.