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

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RBRobin Burchell <w00t@inspircd.org>
Date
Oct 6, 2008, 17:54 UTC
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<b19eae4e0810061054l737960bes289af8adc9edc561@mail.gmail.com>
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On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:

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>
> 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.
>

I'll just jump in and add my (admittedly inexperienced) $0.02 - namely, my confusion as to why the GPL would be displayed in place of a EULA when ...it's not a EULA. It is not about how the software may be used at all:

  Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not
  covered by this License; they are outside its scope.  The act of running
  the Program is not restricted, and the output from the Program is
  covered only if its contents constitute a work based on the Program
  (independent of having been made by running the Program).  Whether that
  is true depends on what the Program does.
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Message 9 of 23 in “Customizing the WinGit installer”
  1. Petr BaudisOct 3, 2008
  2. Johannes SchindelinOct 6, 2008
  3. Petr BaudisOct 6, 2008
  4. Johannes SchindelinOct 6, 2008
  5. Jakub NarebskiOct 6, 2008
  6. Johannes SchindelinOct 6, 2008
  7. Linus TorvaldsOct 6, 2008
  8. Bruce StephensOct 6, 2008
  9. Robin BurchellOct 6, 2008
  10. Johannes SchindelinOct 6, 2008
  11. Linus TorvaldsOct 6, 2008
  12. Dmitry PotapovOct 7, 2008
  13. Linus TorvaldsOct 7, 2008
  14. Dmitry PotapovOct 7, 2008
  15. Heikki OrsilaOct 7, 2008
  16. Petr BaudisOct 7, 2008
  17. Junio C HamanoOct 8, 2008
  18. Heikki OrsilaOct 6, 2008
  19. Dmitry PotapovOct 7, 2008
  20. Avery PennarunOct 7, 2008
  21. Heikki OrsilaOct 7, 2008
  22. Abdelrazak YounesOct 6, 2008
  23. Petr BaudisOct 6, 2008

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