Comment 3 for bug 125984

I agree that oem-config is not the right place to handle copyright issues. For one thing, there are just too many to have the user agree during the oem-config.

The typical use case for what prompted the bug report seems to be hardware shipped pre-loaded with Ubuntu, which is what I sell.

In order for the copyrights to be legally enforcable in the US, the licenses must be "accepted" by the user *before* using the software. That can be done in a variety of ways, but the easiest way is simply to include the license in a printed document included in the box with the computer. For the computers I sell, I must manually find and print them out. It's tedious and time consuming.

As a system builder, I do know that we need an easier way to generate a list of which packages have which licenses, and to print out the licenses of all the software in the computer. I'm not sure how to make that so, but it is something that needs doing.

Happy Trails,

Loye Young
Isaac & Young Computer Company
Laredo, Texas
http://www.iycc.biz