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Originally Posted by user_none
Why are Windows users the only ones forced to agree to the GPL before they can use calibre? The OS X and Linux versions don't even show the GPL let alone require agreeing to it.
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2) CC and, presumably, you claim that copyright applies even without the presence of that checkbox. I certainly hope it does, given that calibre is distributed in many forms not all of which are amenable to presenting a copyright notice. But, whether it does or does not, is irrelevant.
3) The GPL imposes restriction on what you as the end user can do. Even if those restrictions apply automatically, I still think it is polite to inform you of them. I know of no more effective way to do so than to present the license and to indicate that it has non trivial content, by adding a checkbox asking you to accept it. Which is what I have said repeatedly in this thread and been ignored.
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There's only so much work I am willing to do for politeness.
@ARussell: The problem with firefox was that it showed the incorrect license terms for the Ubuntu version of firefox.