Hi, On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote:Yes, the full installer does not (yet) ask for acceptance of the GPL, basically because I am too lazy, and also because I expect developers to actually read the notices in the copyright section in the source code, should they modify the source. The reasoning for showing the GPL in the Git installer I cannot explain, because I was not part of it. However, I am very much in favour, for two reasons: - the end users should really know that the software is licensed in a pretty free way. Most of the users will have read about "the GPL", and know what it says without reading it. Others may see it for the first time, and be astonished that such a license exists, and actually covers a useful program. - _every_ serious Windows program comes with a click-through license. We just don't want to be left behind. - even if it would be not necessary to accept the license (which I am not at all sure about, but do not care enough to learn about it, either), I am not amused by somebody I do not know of, and who did not share anything with me that I know of, asking me to remove that license dialog. If you are not okay with accepting a tit-for-tat license, well... I'll not give you "tat". So there is really nothing that I can think of, which would change my mind about that "issue". Ciao, Dscho - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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