From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jakub Narebski Subject: Re: [msysGit] Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:12:45 +0100 Organization: At home Message-ID: References: <7vmyqk563z.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> <20080207123108.GA12009@bit.office.eurotux.com> <20080207130715.GA14000@bit.office.eurotux.com> <20080207155946.GA20459@bit.office.eurotux.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Cc: msysgit@googlegroups.com To: git@vger.kernel.org X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Thu Feb 07 17:13:39 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 1JN9NX-0004Fv-5g for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:13:35 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756233AbYBGQNF (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:13:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756063AbYBGQND (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:13:03 -0500 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:55837 "EHLO ciao.gmane.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755288AbYBGQNB (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Feb 2008 11:13:01 -0500 Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1JN9Mt-0002EK-1S for git@vger.kernel.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:12:55 +0000 Received: from abvj33.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl ([83.8.207.33]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:12:55 +0000 Received: from jnareb by abvj33.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 16:12:55 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Followup-To: gmane.comp.version-control.git X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: abvj33.neoplus.adsl.tpnet.pl Mail-Copies-To: Jakub Narebski User-Agent: KNode/0.10.2 Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: Luciano Rocha wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 09:53:05AM -0500, Nicolas Pitre wrote: >> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Luciano Rocha wrote: >>> I like and use GPL, but I won't force my users to accept the GPL in >>> order to use programs released under it. >> >> What are they forced into if they indeed only want to _use_ Git? > > The msys git installer forces me to accept the GNU GPL in order to > proceed. > > Of course, I can use another installer, or compile my own set of > binaries. I just wanted to bring that case to attention, nothing else. > >> They nevertheless must be made aware of the rules they have to follow in >> case the idea of redistributing it crosses their mind. > > I don't dispute that, only that I can't continue with the install unless > I click on "I Accept" to the GNU GPL. So, would you prefer to be presented with GNU GPL with two buttons: "That's great" and "Oh, f**k", instead of "I Accept" and "Cancel", both of which would allow to install msysGit? ;-ppppppp -- Jakub Narebski Warsaw, Poland ShadeHawk on #git