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[Martin Pitt]

Matthew East [2008-11-27 20:50 +0000]:
> The point about how best to communicate whatever terms of use we seek
> to impose for using Ubuntu is still an interesting one, and I still
> think the MOTD is not the best place.

I fully agree, with my admittedly naive and ignorant user hat on.

To you lawyers it might come across rude and surprising, but in fact
usually when I log into a remote system, the first thing that I want
to do and chek is _not_ reading licenses and usage privileges. As long
as I can run it from my ssh session, I don't care about legalese. :-)
And if I can't, well, then I can still read error messages and
copyright files to figure it out.

However, in its current form I agree that motd is just rather
uninteresting. For one it's boilerplate, and also I guess few admins
will actually update it everytime they actually install a piece of
proprietary software.

Martin

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