From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [msysGit] [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: References: <20081003122727.GE10360@machine.or.cz> <20081006141840.GO10360@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Petr Baudis , msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes Schindelin X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 06 18:05:12 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1KmsWx-0004ne-Cd for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 18:01:55 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752419AbYJFQAo (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:00:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1752503AbYJFQAo (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:00:44 -0400 Received: from nf-out-0910.google.com ([64.233.182.191]:7512 "EHLO nf-out-0910.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752289AbYJFQAm (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 12:00:42 -0400 Received: by nf-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d3so1057942nfc.21 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:40 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received :x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; bh=I4Kh0OiYghqcLQ0Lmke+AkoRQpN7pOnyqZNbYg8nXG8=; b=Mo+OJCGWZlSySgWBR1OdhQ0WeyWZ3b3Iaxx2ChhYFucu+3DmeSchMTh/bXbuR7Bzgg dSf3AdLF+Dc8hP1vYCI0yMBmVLKKmpkh4kRLgWpDbeL0tah5loDGpUjnaumvKaRZ14/o f3SKzZYHsXeHYXDAZlMwJMRQe/zl63q3jqt4k= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=x-authentication-warning:to:cc:subject:references:from:in-reply-to :message-id:lines:user-agent:mime-version:content-type:date; b=fx9aZ5/GPNKcGrF7+XIdVLHov7BZs8C/Qtd5BtTA5WZkAF6S2pVQaOA1Iyq5N0wRys PkHBhJFMm0C8nP3X+8/Md3gedhSkQJHEHNB+uBhEncJVOyF3bM2cG3/j3Y/KJq49Y6aC xEzVxOpvI2jV2RRJBo2pkpTJojplnNOUAUSSw= Received: by 10.210.44.1 with SMTP id r1mr6509639ebr.153.1223308840569; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (abwo50.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl [83.8.238.50]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id c22sm7782401ika.1.2008.10.06.09.00.36 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id m96G0ZMI021507; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:00:36 +0200 Received: (from jnareb@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id m96G0XNo021504; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:00:33 +0200 X-Authentication-Warning: localhost.localdomain: jnareb set sender to jnareb@gmail.com using -f In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.4 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Johannes Schindelin writes: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:22:08PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > > > > -InfoBeforeFile=gpl-2.0.rtf > > > > > > I'd rather keep it in, especially in a corporate environment. > > > > why? How is it relevant for the users? > > 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). Wouldn't it be better to keep it, but move it from EULA position to for example 'License' item in 'Help' entry (below 'About') in gitk and git-gui? IIRC there was a lot of controversy about Firefox using EULA, although MS Windows users are most probably used to it... -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git