>> On Sep 10, 2015, at 9:22 PM, Jim Hall <[email protected]> wrote: >> I don't know about displaying the EULA. There are many free software / >> open source licenses used in the FreeDOS distribution. The kernel and >> many utilities in Base are under the GNU GPL, but many other programs >> are under the BSD license, or MIT license, etc. I don't think you want >> to display all of those for an EULA. >> >> I think a simple info screen will suffice. Something like: >> >>> Welcome to FreeDOS! >>> >>> FreeDOS is a free version of DOS, an operating system that you install >>> on your computer. FreeDOS is made up of many smaller programs, called >>> utilities. >>> >>> Most of FreeDOS is distributed to you under the GNU General Public >>> License, a free software license that guarantees you have access to >>> the source code. Other parts of FreeDOS are distributed under a >>> similar license that includes source code. >>> >>> For details on the specific licenses used in FreeDOS, refer to the >>> documentation. This is usually installed in C:\FDOS\DOC >>
On Thu, Sep 10, 2015 at 8:33 PM, Jerome Shidel <[email protected]> wrote: > Yeah, your right. There is no "one Eula to rule them all" > No Eula page then. > > Hummm.... > How about on welcome page? Something like: > > 1 Continue to install > 2 More information > 3 Quit > If you're proposing a menu at install-time so the user must select one of the three options, I don't think that's a very user friendly way to do it. I would rather have the info/welcome screen I proposed (see above) show up immediately. After that welcome, the install process continues: Do you want to install Base or everything? Do you want to install source code? That makes it simple. And friendly. Jim ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Freedos-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/freedos-devel
