Re: [msysGit] Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4

["Jonathan del Strother" <maillist@steelskies.com>]

On Feb 7, 2008 8:23 PM, Dmitry Potapov <dpotapov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:42:59AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote:
> >
> > It does not matter if the person is somebody you know or you
> > have shared with.  I'd grant you that Luciano could have been
> > more diplomatic when he started his message, but I'd agree that
> > it is silly to refuse to install an end user program unless the
> > end user agrees to GPL that governs how its sources can and
> > cannot be used, especially if the installer does not even
> > install the sources to the software.
>
> Actually, the GPL is applied to the binary form too, and it
> prescribes how the program can be redistributed. There is no
> restriction on how the user can run the program, but we still
> must give to the user a copy of GPL in the appropriate way.
> Besides, the user should acknowledge that he or she is warned
> the program is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind.
> If the user cannot accept that, he or she should not run the
> program.
>

Just out of curiosity - does this mean that MacPorts (a fink-like
package manager for OS X) ought to display the license while
installing?  Or does that somehow not apply here?