DSpace 7 User licence

[pierre...@bibl.ulaval.ca]

Hi everyone, 

When registering or connecting for the first time in DSPace 7, the user is prompt to approve a user licence (see print screen attached). The default licence contains Lorem Ispum text, but my understanding is that this licence is meant for privacy terms. Am I correct?

Thanks for your help.

Best, 

Pierre

[Tim Donohue]

Hi Pierre,

Yes, that's correct.  It's meant to be an "End User Agreement" for privacy purposes.  Unfortunately, at this time, as you noted it's full of Lorem Ipsum text as we don't have a default, out-of-the-box End User Agreement.  That said, there has been discussion about drafting one up to distribute in DSpace....while this may need to be modified by institutions based on their local privacy needs, it'd be better than Lorem Ipsum text.

Here's a ticket where that discussion has started: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1080

In one of the comments of that ticket, there is a draft/example end user agreement linked in a Google Doc which might be a starting point for some institutions: https://github.com/DSpace/dspace-angular/issues/1080#issuecomment-1006801347

I do hope that eventually we can replace this Lorem Ipsum text, but we don't yet have a reasonably generic replacement text that might work.  If this is something of interest to you (or to anyone else reading this), we'd welcome others to share their feedback or suggested replacement text on that ticket above.  If we can come to a quick consensus (especially among institutions in different countries/regions) then we might be able to get some replacement text sooner rather than later.

Tim