debian/copyright lists an EULA, but the user is not asked to agree at install time

Bug #664682 reported by Steve Langasek
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This bug affects 2 people
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
opengles-sgx-omap3 (Ubuntu)
Fix Released
Undecided
Ricardo Salveti

Bug Description

Binary package hint: opengles-sgx-omap3

debian/copyright for this package includes the following license preamble:

License: TI TSPA
 Texas Instruments Incorporated
 Technology and Software Publicly Available
 Software License Agreement
 .
 Important - Please read the following license agreement carefully. This is a
 legally binding agreement. Do not click "i have read and agree" or use (as
 applicable) the Licensed Materials unless: (1) you are authorized to accept
 and agree to the terms of this license agreement on behalf of yourself or your
 company (as applicable) and (2) you intend to be bound by the terms of this
 license agreement on behalf of yourself or your company (as applicable).
 .

This instructs users that they may not use the software without first agreeing to the terms of this license. If this is the correct license for this package, then this EULA needs to be shown to the user via a debconf prompt, and the package installation should fail without an explicit acceptance of the license by the user.

If this is *not* the effective license for this work (because the copyright holder has confirmed that no EULA consent from the user is required as a condition of use), then debian/copyright should be updated to list the correct license.

Changed in opengles-sgx-omap3 (Ubuntu):
assignee: nobody → Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti)
status: New → Confirmed
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Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti) wrote :

It seems that TI didn't want an EULA for this package, but the license doesn't say so. I'll check with TI during UDS to see if they can change the license before changing the package.

Revision history for this message
Ricardo Salveti (rsalveti) wrote :

Vicent, as the sgx package for OMAP 4 has a similar license, do you know if TI really wanted to have an EULA for it?

Revision history for this message
Launchpad Janitor (janitor) wrote :

This bug was fixed in the package opengles-sgx-omap3 - 4.00.00.01-0ubuntu1

---------------
opengles-sgx-omap3 (4.00.00.01-0ubuntu1) natty; urgency=low

  * New upstream release
    - Compatible with Natty
    - Now the package requires user to accept EULA (LP: #664682)
 -- Ricardo Salveti de Araujo <email address hidden> Tue, 12 Apr 2011 02:46:37 -0300

Changed in opengles-sgx-omap3 (Ubuntu):
status: Confirmed → Fix Released
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