From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Jonathan del Strother" Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 21:49:45 +0000 Message-ID: <57518fd10802071349w50446803q249cbda0e2998bc5@mail.gmail.com> References: <7vmyqk563z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080207123108.GA12009@bit.office.eurotux.com> <20080207130715.GA14000@bit.office.eurotux.com> <7v1w7ooes3.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <7vprv8mu2k.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080207202357.GO30368@dpotapov.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Junio C Hamano" , "Johannes Schindelin" , "Luciano Rocha" , "Steffen Prohaska" , "Git Mailing List" , msysGit To: "Dmitry Potapov" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 07 22:50:43 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 1JNEdT-0006bg-D1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 22:50:23 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757288AbYBGVtt (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:49:49 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757162AbYBGVts (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:49:48 -0500 Received: from el-out-1112.google.com ([209.85.162.183]:22622 "EHLO el-out-1112.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756868AbYBGVtr (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 16:49:47 -0500 Received: by el-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id v27so1456423ele.23 for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:49:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; bh=bB+FOwy1Q8yfQy8BjBG8C8MQrFqTJI0ZMSxo3s8qBtU=; b=XvPjKQ1v2jkoOrtuLdlkDSPoyzSLLLPraNdA1+E6O9K5FT0QpegG9TYETjV0vKxEEWBNVmb3B7FBhvsSrVjK1s9LOH0Veyacydg73SJ4hi4oQ5HpyPOA6crjivxug3/Ojy464bcNxqWO2A6Z2Z4m2iLtg9jRtNrhdxUKKqoti2A= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=message-id:date:from:sender:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references:x-google-sender-auth; b=BIAJCH7T12Gt1xGyBZp/YU37BRttyGfEI200GT+BvUU7HER7rREVtBD/YQRGBqOFc4fIspC1UgUxwbguaW4HWueWluGJ/6Jf+MsLo26pS/SlB7VjkZRaqkh1OT3IpL6p+2Z5h+LZGZBUgLPFko/M9hpDn4/8z6n57yF5MVHjO2o= Received: by 10.141.123.4 with SMTP id a4mr7936598rvn.172.1202420985640; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 13:49:45 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.141.86.15 with HTTP; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 13:49:45 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <20080207202357.GO30368@dpotapov.dyndns.org> Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: 8cd77661a9858d63 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Feb 7, 2008 8:23 PM, Dmitry Potapov 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?