Re: Force Software License Language and/or Save Choice
Re: Force Software License Language and/or Save Choice
- Subject: Re: Force Software License Language and/or Save Choice
- From: Mike Fischer <email@hidden>
- Date: Fri, 18 Nov 2005 00:39:12 +0100
Am 17.11.2005 um 21:03 schrieb Brian Ray <email@hidden>:
In PackageMaker, the Software License Agreement panel give language
choices of every language in my package. Is there a way to force the
language set by the user system preference?
I don't know but...
For example, if the users Localization is set to German, can this
panel show only this license and not the Language choice pop-up menu?
Either way, I still must be able to tell which choice was made for
when a user serializes the product or contacts support. The lawyers
say, "translated license agreements are not compatible with each-
other."
How would this help? Say I'm an Austrian using a language setting of
German. Then I would see the license agreement for Germany, which
would probably not apply to me as an Austrian, at least not fully. Or
say I'm a venezuelian using Spanish as my preferred language. I'm
prety sure that venezualian law differes from spanish law. Maybe you
should ask you lawyers about that. Venezuelia
The main problem here IMHO is not language but jurisdiction. I don't
think Mac OS X has any way of knowing which countries law apply to a
user. Neither the location of the machine (which is not generally
known to the machine other than maybe the time zone), nor the
language setting of the user are more than indicative of which law
might apply. And what about my Armenian collegue who is using the
same machine under his user account with his langauge preference?
When I install the software in /Applications under my German language
account, accepting the German license terms, how would these apply to
him?
Maybe the license agreements should be written to accomodate the
difficulties, telling the user to refer to the appropriate version.
In that case having the popup menu is actually a very useful feature.
And who reads license agreements anyway?
HTH
Mike
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Schulung, Vertrieb
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Phone: +49 (0)40/45038886, Fax: +49 (0)40/45038887
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