From: Jakub Narebski <jnareb@gmail.com>
To: Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de>
Cc: Petr Baudis <pasky@suse.cz>,
msysgit@googlegroups.com, git@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [msysGit] [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 09:00:37 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3zllhpvby.fsf@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810061718240.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@gmx.de> writes:
> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:22:08PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > > On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Petr Baudis wrote:
> > >
> > > > -InfoBeforeFile=gpl-2.0.rtf
> > >
> > > I'd rather keep it in, especially in a corporate environment.
> >
> > why? How is it relevant for the users?
>
> To give them an idea about their _rights_. Because they are entitled by
> the GPL to get -- in source -- the changes that were done to that
> particular distributions.
>
> Speaking from experience, companies usually do not want to tell you about
> your rights with regard to free software.
>
> And in this case, I have a personal interest. I feel that my efforts to
> the msysGit project are not really rewarded. People like to use it, but
> they hardly give anything back (you being a very notable exception).
Wouldn't it be better to keep it, but move it from EULA position
to for example 'License' item in 'Help' entry (below 'About') in
gitk and git-gui? IIRC there was a lot of controversy about Firefox
using EULA, although MS Windows users are most probably used to it...
--
Jakub Narebski
Poland
ShadeHawk on #git
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-10-06 16:01 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 [this message]
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
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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