Re: [msysGit] [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer

["Avery Pennarun" <apenwarr@gmail.com>]

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 9:59 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 11:11:25PM +0300, Heikki Orsila wrote:
>>
>> I disagree VIOLENTLY with you. I've been utterly struck with this
>> Windows crap here.. I spent a day installing stupid trivial software
>> and answering pointless EULAs. I REALLY REALLY hate extra questions..
>
> Git installer should NOT ask you whether you agree with the license,
> but it merely shows you the license. (At least, it is what was decided
> half a year ago).

FWIW, the only reason *installers* ever show licenses is because they
want to give you *additional* restrictions on top of normal copyright,
and making you "click through" the license before using the
application might (or might not) make those restrictions more legally
enforceable than simply including that license along with the program.

Installers don't show you the license to increase visibility; they do
it for legal reasons.

The most visible place to put a license is in either a splash screen
or a Help|About dialog.  If I'm using a program and I want to know the
license, that's where I look.

This whole discussion is silly because end users, who are the ones we
claim to be worried about, will not be the ones running the installer
anyway at a large company.  It'll be the IT department guy, who
already knows the license and will have to run the installer 500
times.  And if it's not a large company, individuals will see the
license when they go to download the software.

Have fun,

Avery