Electronic license agreements

AIX® ships with software license agreements that can be viewed electronically.

If a product has an electronic license agreement, it must be accepted before software installation can continue. In the case of initial BOS installation, you can view and accept or reject license agreements in a license agreement dialog after the installation has occurred, but before the system is available for use as part of Configuration Assistant (graphics consoles) or Installation Assistant (ASCII consoles).

The AIX BOS has a license agreement, but not all software packages do. When you agree to the license agreement for BOS installation, you are also accepting all license agreements for any software installed automatically with the BOS. Some software, such as the GNOME or KDE desktops, can be optionally installed during BOS installation; the appropriate licensing information for such software is displayed separately.

If a customized bosinst.data file is used (usually for unattended installations, or nonprompted installations), the ACCEPT_LICENSES field in the control_flow stanza can be used to accept the license agreements so users are not prompted at reboot time. When performing a "push" installation using the Network Installation Management (NIM) environment, the licenses must be accepted, either from the choices made when initializing the installation or in a customized bosinst.data file, before the installation can continue. For more information about the bosinst.data file, refer to The bosinst.data file.

For additional software package installations, the installation cannot occur unless the appropriate license agreements are accepted. This option, as well as options to preview licenses, is offered in both the System Management Interface Tool (SMIT) interfaces. When using the installp command, use the -Y flag to accept licenses and the -E flag to view license agreement files on the media.

For more information about license manipulation, refer to the inulag command description in the Commands Reference, Volume 3.