Re: License agreement interaction
Re: License agreement interaction
- Subject: Re: License agreement interaction
- From: Bill Coderre <email@hidden>
- Date: Wed, 13 Jan 2010 15:18:22 -0800
On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:09 PM, Eli Bach wrote:
> On Jan 13, 2010, at 3:56 PM, Kevin Brock wrote:
>
>> Does anyone know if it's possible to both
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>> a) Show a license agreement
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>> and
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>> b) *Not* require the customer to agree to it?
>>
>> I know, it sounds strange. Our legal department wants us to do this. I think it's because the license agreement is a pointer to a license for a server product, and anyone seeing the agreement is covered under the server license. Why they don't just leave it out entirely is something I don't know right now.
>>
>> In any case, this requirement is what I have to work with at the moment.
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>> Any information on this would be appreciated.
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>> Thanks.
>
> Maybe just include the license text in the main 'notes/description' panel, or have a separate panel just displaying the license text, and the user just hits Next to go past it?
Just to be painfully clear, you have two good choices:
1) Put the license in the ReadMe panel of the installer, perhaps after the rest of the readme file.
2) Write a custom installer plugin (trivial to do, but it can't be used in flat packages). I believe there's sample code that would only take a few minutes to adjust.
You could theoretically put it in the Welcome panel of the installer, but people can't save/print that file, and if it's miles long it MIGHT cause display bugs on older systems. So the ReadMe panel is a better idea.
There's also a conclusion panel, but you probably would not want to put it there because people wouldn't see it until after install, and that'd make them grumpy. _______________________________________________
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