Re: [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer

From: Johannes Schindelin <johannes.schindelin@gmx.de>
Date: Oct 6, 2008, 18:01 UTC
Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.1.00.0810061959280.22125@pacific.mpi-cbg.de.mpi-cbg.de>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810061031380.3208@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

Hi,

On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:

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> On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Johannes Schindelin wrote:
> > 
> > Well, I consider it a courtesy to the msysGit people to leave it where 
> > it is.
> 
> Umm. I consider it to be UNACCEPTABLY STUPID to claim "courtesy" if it 
> actually makes something just more irritating to users.
> 
> 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.
> 
> Bugs aren't "courtesy". Not to the user, and certainly not to the 
> developer.

It is not a bug. It is a message that tells the Windows user that this is GPLed software, and that they are free to copy it. Windows users (and developers on Windows are more of users than developers) are often not aware of that fact.

That is the reason why many Open Source projects do not bother on Linux, but do bother on Windows.

So I guess we simply disagree here.

Ciao, Dscho