From: Robin Burchell <w00t@inspircd.org>
Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2008 17:54:54 GMT
Subject: Re: [msysGit] [FYI][PATCH] Customizing the WinGit installer
Message-ID: <b19eae4e0810061054l737960bes289af8adc9edc561@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.LFD.2.00.0810061031380.3208@nehalem.linux-foundation.org>

On Mon, Oct 6, 2008 at 6:34 PM, Linus Torvalds
<torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
> 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.