From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Petr Baudis Subject: Re: [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 19:23:48 +0200 Message-ID: <20081006172348.GQ10360@machine.or.cz> References: <20081003122727.GE10360@machine.or.cz> <20081006141840.GO10360@machine.or.cz> Reply-To: pasky@suse.cz Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: grbounce-SUPTvwUAAABqUyiVh9Fi-Slj5a_0adWQ=gcvm-msysgit=m.gmane.org@googlegroups.com Mon Oct 06 19:27:28 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvm-msysgit@m.gmane.org Received: from yx-out-2122.google.com ([74.125.44.26]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KmtpP-0006Yz-BK for gcvm-msysgit@m.gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:25:03 +0200 Received: by yx-out-2122.google.com with SMTP id 22so1294840yxm.63 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:23:56 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:x-sender:x-apparently-to :received:received:received-spf:authentication-results:received:date :from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:reply-to:sender :precedence:x-google-loop:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help :list-unsubscribe:x-beenthere-env:x-beenthere; bh=XejQ8MqPcEGzA8PjMLl4bBYKDZ2sGEmYOdgox9gGOls=; b=aPYzgFa5dNMYrjB3lHr8jcU8KDqJ+BDzWY9hIe6iqvZSGYyUKFsqGfL8sQt4Xzo3Cs gg+wX7qOYRKaPFAyvjULzoFCLLXfEgeTubft76hQIc8/pI+8udEhqKeg+9UYoZrjEnSQ AoTwPrPPCmZsf0ymnFGjZvWaTrtsSLHLlC+tU= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=googlegroups.com; s=beta; h=x-sender:x-apparently-to:received-spf:authentication-results:date :from:to:cc:subject:message-id:references:mime-version:content-type :content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent:reply-to:sender :precedence:x-google-loop:mailing-list:list-id:list-post:list-help :list-unsubscribe:x-beenthere-env:x-beenthere; b=2mowZ1uFZM/WLrmI6g1spHtiZHD1Fzjk5D9LiB5Z9TFYEDytyQf8t5CUWAbVMxoKBT dgd75T18mQ2w/pUc0oIUuxMdA4Vi53LdnVaU81cc54UkYtYgPUnHnG7ghLKX1oR3tfR2 qrAc8KpnPuqWF0Q0gtSfrfW7s4DlST6QDmcus= Received: by 10.151.42.18 with SMTP id u18mr161818ybj.9.1223313830881; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.44.74.68 with SMTP id w68gr3001hsa.0; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:23:50 -0700 (PDT) X-Sender: pasky@machine.or.cz X-Apparently-To: msysgit@googlegroups.com Received: by 10.90.71.15 with SMTP id t15mr77608aga.7.1223313830148; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:23:50 -0700 (PDT) Received: from machine.or.cz (w241.dkm.cz [62.24.88.241]) by mx.google.com with ESMTP id 22si11160139yxr.1.2008.10.06.10.23.49; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:23:49 -0700 (PDT) Received-SPF: neutral (google.com: 62.24.88.241 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of pasky@machine.or.cz) client-ip=62.24.88.241; Authentication-Results: mx.google.com; spf=neutral (google.com: 62.24.88.241 is neither permitted nor denied by best guess record for domain of pasky@machine.or.cz) smtp.mail=pasky@machine.or.cz Received: by machine.or.cz (Postfix, from userid 2001) id 21F2E3939BDC; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 19:23:48 +0200 (CEST) Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) Sender: msysgit@googlegroups.com Precedence: bulk X-Google-Loop: groups Mailing-List: list msysgit@googlegroups.com; contact msysgit+owner@googlegroups.com List-Id: List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: , X-BeenThere-Env: msysgit@googlegroups.com X-BeenThere: msysgit@googlegroups.com Archived-At: Hi, On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:23:19PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > To give them an idea about their _rights_. Because they are entitled by > the GPL to get -- in source -- the changes that were done to that > particular distributions. > > Speaking from experience, companies usually do not want to tell you about > your rights with regard to free software. > > And in this case, I have a personal interest. I feel that my efforts to > the msysGit project are not really rewarded. People like to use it, but > they hardly give anything back (you being a very notable exception). Maybe this is a little of a misunderstanding. This is not a "consumer" aimed customized Git version. This is for internal Git usage within the corporation, the users have varying interest in Git but it is generally very low, they just regard it as another tool and they will never hack or customize it; I just don't see a point in bothering them with another extra installation step. Maybe in more general Git distribution I would agree this change indeed is not that appropriate (even though in my own GPL'd project, I wouldn't add the GPL step to the installer anyway). -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths.