78026 - License should be shown in dialog separate from installer

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(SeaMonkey :: Installer, enhancement)

Description

[Matthew T (active 1999-2002)]

From bug 76460 ...

A user cannot go back to the license screen of the Mozilla installer once they 
have accepted the terms of the MPL. This breaks the general back/forward 
navigation of the installer, making the UI less obvious than it otherwise might 
be.

So, I suggest that the license be shown in a separate dialog, which must be 
accepted before the installer window itself opens. Rough mockup ...

+-----------------------------------------------------+
|:::::::::::::::: Welcome to Mozilla ::::::::::::::::H|
+-----------------------------------------------------+
| You must accept the terms of this license agreement |
| before you can install Mozilla.                     |
| +-------------------------------------------------+ |
| |                                                 | |
: :                                                 : :

: :                                                 : :
| |                                                 | |
| +-------------------------------------------------+ |
|                                                     |
| ( Print ... )              ( Decline ) (( Accept )) |
+-----------------------------------------------------+

Doing this would be necessary anyway, as a first step towards a method of 
installation which uses a self-mounting disk image rather than an installer 
app. The license dialog, and nothing else, would need to be accepted before the 
disk image could be opened -- as in any modern Microsoft application for the 
Mac, for example.

Comment 1

[Sean Su]

sending it over to Samir.

Comment 2

[Samir Gehani]

Over to Syd for installer bug triage

Comment 3

[Jesse Ruderman]

There shouldn't be a license dialog in the installer.  The MPL gives rights
rather than taking them away, and it applies to source code rather than binaries.

Comment 4

[Daniel Veditz [:dveditz]]

Section 3.6 of the MPL requires binaries to include a notification about the
license and source code availability (not quite the same thing as including the
license itself).

Comment 5

[Jesse Ruderman]

Would it be enough to include a link to http://www.mozilla.org/source.html in
Help > About?  If I wanted the source code to another program, I wouldn't even
think of downloading and running the installer a second time.  Especially if I
had downloaded a zip build :)  I would look in Help > About and I'd look for a
text file in the bin\ directory.

Comment 6

[Frankie]

Quoth Steve Dagley: "The Mac installer code was never Carbonized and there is no
intention to ever change that."

http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=yahoo_com-77F6E8.09344011022003%40h-204-29-187-156.netscape.com
http://groups.google.com/groups?threadm=avkj4k%24ihs2%40ripley.netscape.com

Comment 7

[Grace Bush]

per comment above