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Bug#268331: marked as done (openoffice.org: OpenOffice.org Installation requires me to accept an End User License Agreement (EULA))

Your message dated Fri, 03 Aug 2007 16:21:39 +0200
with message-id <87hcngvguk.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de>
and subject line Probably fixed
has caused the attached Bug report to be marked as done.

This means that you claim that the problem has been dealt with.
If this is not the case it is now your responsibility to reopen the
Bug report if necessary, and/or fix the problem forthwith.

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Debian bug tracking system administrator
(administrator, Debian Bugs database)
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Package: openoffice.org
Version: 1.1.2-3
Severity: serious
Justification: Policy 2.2.1

OpenOffice.org performs an installation if it's never been fired up
before.  In this installation, we see a screen that looks somewhat like
this:

  Software License Agreement:
  
  <license texts here>
  
  Please follow these steps to process with the installation:
   1. View the complete License Agreement.  Please use the
      scroll bar of the 'Page Down' button in this dialog to     Page Down
      view the entire license text.
  
   2. Accept the License Agreement
      [ ] I accept the terms of the Agreement.
  
   Print                                      << Back    Next >>   Decline

When I hit the 'Decline' button, I am asked if I wish to exit the
installation program.  But I don't want to!  I just don't wish to accept
the licenses presented:

1. Your choice of the GPL, LGPL, or the SISSL.
2. The license for Berkeley DB, a derivative of the 3-clause BSD license
3. The 3-clause BSD license itself
4. The 3-clause BSD from Harvard University
5. The International Components for Unicode license, the X11 license

All five of these licenses do not restrict the use of this software.
Yet there is a screen that forces me to accept all five of them before I
can use it.  If I never wish to modify or redistribute this software,
then I must not be compelled to accept these licenses before I can use
OpenOffice.

Please remove this screen from the installer, and the problem will go
away.  Alternatively, you could make the 'Decline' button function
exactly like the 'Next >>' button, although this would be misleading to
users.

-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
  APT prefers unstable
  APT policy: (500, 'unstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.5-1-686
Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8

Versions of packages openoffice.org depends on:
ii  dictionaries-common [openoffi 0.22.50    Common utilities for spelling dict
ii  openoffice.org-bin            1.1.2-3    OpenOffice.org office suite binary
ii  openoffice.org-debian-files   1.1.2-3+1  Debian specific parts of OpenOffic
ii  openoffice.org-l10n-en [openo 1.1.2-3    English (US) language package for 
ii  ttf-opensymbol                1.1.2-3    The OpenSymbol TrueType font

-- no debconf information

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I haven't run into this issue for some time, so I believe this has
been fixed at some point.

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