From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Abdelrazak Younes Subject: Re: [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:19:16 +0200 Message-ID: <48EA80D4.5030209@lyx.org> References: <20081003122727.GE10360@machine.or.cz> <20081006141840.GO10360@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Linus Torvalds , Jakub Narebski , Petr Baudis , msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 06 23:20:55 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 1KmxVO-0007nB-8U for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 23:20:38 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755665AbYJFVT0 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:19:26 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755638AbYJFVTZ (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:19:25 -0400 Received: from smtp8-g19.free.fr ([212.27.42.65]:51991 "EHLO smtp8-g19.free.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755585AbYJFVTY (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 17:19:24 -0400 Received: from smtp8-g19.free.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp8-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id E745B32A7BE; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:19:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.10] (gre92-10-88-181-30-42.fbx.proxad.net [88.181.30.42]) by smtp8-g19.free.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E08F32A817; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 23:19:22 +0200 (CEST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.1b1pre) Gecko/20080918110343 Shredder/3.0b1pre In-Reply-To: Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On 06/10/2008 20:01, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > Hi, > > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote: > >> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote: >>> Well, I consider it a courtesy to the msysGit people to leave it where >>> it is. >> Umm. I consider it to be UNACCEPTABLY STUPID to claim "courtesy" if it >> actually makes something just more irritating to users. >> >> I absolutely detest clicking through EULA's or other self-serving crap. >> I hate software that bothers me with their license details. Nobody reads >> those things anyway, and an extra click or an extra window I didn't ask >> for - _especially_ in open source software - is just a bug. >> >> Bugs aren't "courtesy". Not to the user, and certainly not to the >> developer. > > It is not a bug. It is a message that tells the Windows user that this is > GPLed software, and that they are free to copy it. Windows users (and > developers on Windows are more of users than developers) are often not > aware of that fact. Well, maybe so called "Windows pseudo-developers" do not feel welcome to participate to this particular project? Or maybe this project has not reached yet the minimum visibility threshold? git has a lot of contributors on Linux because it is visible there. Do you think all users of git on Linux systematically contributes? Don't get me wrong, I am truly thankful for msysgit but, IMHO, if you produce and publish a free software you should just accept and be glad that it is used. Otherwise, just don't publish it. > That is the reason why many Open Source projects do not bother on Linux, > but do bother on Windows. And a lot other projects do not bother with this even on Windows and Mac too. Regards, Abdel.