From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Robin Burchell" Subject: Re: [msysGit] [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2008 18:54:54 +0100 Message-ID: References: <20081003122727.GE10360@machine.or.cz> <20081006141840.GO10360@machine.or.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: "Johannes Schindelin" , "Jakub Narebski" , "Petr Baudis" , msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: "Linus Torvalds" X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Oct 06 19:56:41 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 1KmuJp-0001qv-K1 for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 19:56:30 +0200 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755266AbYJFRy5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:54:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755275AbYJFRy5 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:54:57 -0400 Received: from yx-out-2324.google.com ([74.125.44.30]:57541 "EHLO yx-out-2324.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755262AbYJFRy4 (ORCPT ); Mon, 6 Oct 2008 13:54:56 -0400 Received: by yx-out-2324.google.com with SMTP id 8so445862yxm.1 for ; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:54:54 -0700 (PDT) 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=RYFPFhY/JH+I5CAAe49P5JL6y+Fnj66dvJdpopaFOCM=; b=ZQJcZ2s0d4dYPxjV3h/g6QHXGrVu8uuK/Dj5ZMTqdYjxka/yIlTkk851xREykJEdf3 WvZXhkLxaRUZ6bD8h167qlSXJZD9LALTIfDDdXkonINyT3WKS3pdMmi+HWi5Tm3VdrQo 0AKgHevHTqDzK+w0Dk0j8BBsBLp9Q6Lh+w2us= 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=E7dbkvPmVVmlXIIilCPeC08983QukFHya+E0yUCdKy/L0Oy/3MkKJlD+LMnFX/EQz6 GkBsBRzdC1Ny3quK0+/jCJV5NaJaEBhQDoCmO5dq2WZGf8jvhHYYcts4jLpI13Pu40RK 4fB9kCy5fUHLDoTmhh5YI/NvIpVXKXpKkqfy0= Received: by 10.143.5.21 with SMTP id h21mr2128291wfi.175.1223315694211; Mon, 06 Oct 2008 10:54:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.142.237.16 with HTTP; Mon, 6 Oct 2008 10:54:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: Content-Disposition: inline X-Google-Sender-Auth: cc119a8183195fa3 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Linus Torvalds 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.