Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4
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- Steffen Prohaska <prohaska-wjoc1khpmeg@public.gmane.org>
- Date
- Feb 7, 2008, 20:58 UTC
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- <4C918ADB-6FF5-458E-AC81-5683850E1FE4@zib.de>
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On Feb 7, 2008, at 8:59 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
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> > On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, Junio C Hamano wrote: >> >> I think removing the license dialog is a bad idea. You need to >> tell the end-user about his rights, and one of the things is >> that he can get source to git under the terms of GPLv2. The bug >> is not about showing the license, but is about refusing to >> install unless the end user agrees with it. > > Yeah. Why not just rather than the whole ok/cancel discussion, go > with a > single button saying "good for me!" and be done with it. > > IOW, the license thing should be considered *informational* rather > than a > choice. Because to a user, that's exactly what the GPL is.
Ok, if there are no further objections, we'll do that.
Sebastian, can we easily modify the license dialog with Inno Setup? The license should be displayed and a single click should be sufficient to "continue".
Steffen