From: "Robin Burchell" <w00t@inspircd.org>
To: "Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>,
"Jakub Narebski" <jnareb@gmail.com>,
"Petr Baudis" <pasky@suse.cz>,
msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [msysGit] [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:54:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <b19eae4e0810061054l737960bes289af8adc9edc561@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810061031380.3208@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>
On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
I'll just jump in and add my (admittedly inexperienced) $0.02 -
namely, my confusion as to why the GPL would be displayed in place of
a EULA when ...it's not a EULA. It is not about how the software may
be used at all:
Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running
the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is
covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program
(independent of having been made by running the Program). Whether that
is true depends on what the Program does.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-06 17:56 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-10-03 12:27 [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer Petr Baudis
2008-10-06 14:22 ` [msysGit] " Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-06 14:18 ` Petr Baudis
2008-10-06 15:23 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-06 16:00 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-10-06 16:12 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-06 17:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-06 17:51 ` Bruce Stephens
2008-10-06 17:54 ` Robin Burchell [this message]
2008-10-06 18:01 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-10-06 19:47 ` [msysGit] " Linus Torvalds
2008-10-07 1:53 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-10-07 2:10 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-10-07 3:08 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-10-07 7:46 ` Heikki Orsila
2008-10-07 9:28 ` [msysGit] " Petr Baudis
2008-10-08 7:38 ` Junio C Hamano
2008-10-06 20:11 ` [msysGit] " Heikki Orsila
2008-10-07 1:59 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-10-07 2:40 ` Avery Pennarun
2008-10-07 7:42 ` Heikki Orsila
2008-10-06 21:19 ` Abdelrazak Younes
2008-10-06 17:23 ` Petr Baudis
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