Handling "license agreements" from commercial pack

Can someone point me to an existing package that handles a license agreement? I'm trying to figure out the proper procedure if a user "does not accept" the agreement. What to do? "Pacman -R foo" after it's already installed? Not that it's an issue for me, but I was going to post the PKGBUILD for others that may be interested.

Part of Nvidia's license:
2.1.2 Linux/FreeBSD Exception. Notwithstanding the foregoing terms
of Section 2.1.1, SOFTWARE designed exclusively for use on the Linux or
FreeBSD operating systems, or other operating systems derived from the
source code to these operating systems, may be copied and redistributed,
provided that the binary files thereof are not modified in any way
(except for unzipping of compressed files).
So no. It's the difference between a license and a contract. You never need to explicitly agree with a license as you need to comply to it anyway. A license gives you a right which you don't have by default. GPL will never become a contract and will stay a license, so it will never be needed to sign/click anything. If it happens anyway (the "what if"), then we have much more important things to worry about than this. ;-)
The license field is mostly informational, so that you know what you install. You can change Pacman and so on to make it interactive and supporting such EULA packages, but IMHO that's wasted time, as is making packages for such apps. It's the company making A who's responsible for the distribution if it adds an EULA or hampers the distribution in any other way. It's only fair, they caused the problems, they may fix it. Or you can make it easy for them and support their apps.
If you really want to make a package of A then do so, but you don't need to change Pacman for that, you can just make a first time run script which prompts with the EULA and keep Pacman as it is. If you need to agree with the EULA before downloading then you may not make a package anyway.

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