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[Bryce Harrington <bryce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, Dec 24, 2010 at 02:28:50AM -0000, djp wrote:
> @Bryce, cheers that is helpful I will try to make a PPA early next year.
> I do have one question, is it possible to put a EULA type agreement (do
> not sue us etc) into a deb or PPA?

You can put it into the deb.

The PPA has a description field, but it's purely informational and
doesn't support click-thru-agreement type behavior.  It's good for
putting directions or caveats.

Regarding EULAs in debs, I've never done this myself, but you can put a
question into the preinst script.  Some more info (and a tutorial):

  http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2154352/including-license-agreement-in-deb-file

Not sure how that'd work in conjunction with a PPA, so you'll want to
test it.  IIRC, it just does a text prompt on the command line, but
hopefully that'll get you in the right direction.

Some packages like mscorefonts and iirc some java packages include
install-time eula agreements, which might be worth studying.  Fwiw I
think fglrx and nvidia do *not* require click thru's, but I'm not sure
how they handle the EULA agreement - perhaps the way they solved it
would be worth looking at as an alternate approach.