On Feb 7, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Jari Aalto wrote:
The following message is a courtesy copy of an article
that has been posted to gmane.comp.version-
control.git,gmane.comp.version-control.msysgit as well.
* Thu 2008-02-07 Johannes Schindelin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
* Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Why do I have to accept the GPL to install msysgit?
Because that's the only license you have to use git.
I don't quite understand.
- When you install a GPL program in Linux (trough package manager).
It gets installed.
- When git is installed Under Windows / Cygwin, it gets installed.
... and if the git is installed trough windows installer, you need
to *accept* the install?
I really don't follow why there is need to force Windows type EULA
questions through the end users' throat in that particular case,
when it
is not done in other cases.
It's there because we care about telling the people what the
license of git is. We decided that a click through license
is a conspicuously and appropriate way to tell the user
about the license.
I accept that others think that a different way of publishing the
license would be appropriate; but we believe that a click-through
license is the right way.
You can accept this way and install git or you can refuse
the license and not install git. It's your choice. The
license will stay there.
Steffen
