On Feb 7, 2008 8:23 PM, Dmitry Potapov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Feb 07, 2008 at 11:42:59AM -0800, Junio C Hamano wrote: > > > > It does not matter if the person is somebody you know or you > > have shared with. I'd grant you that Luciano could have been > > more diplomatic when he started his message, but I'd agree that > > it is silly to refuse to install an end user program unless the > > end user agrees to GPL that governs how its sources can and > > cannot be used, especially if the installer does not even > > install the sources to the software. > > Actually, the GPL is applied to the binary form too, and it > prescribes how the program can be redistributed. There is no > restriction on how the user can run the program, but we still > must give to the user a copy of GPL in the appropriate way. > Besides, the user should acknowledge that he or she is warned > the program is provided "AS IS" without warranty of any kind. > If the user cannot accept that, he or she should not run the > program. >
Just out of curiosity - does this mean that MacPorts (a fink-like package manager for OS X) ought to display the license while installing? Or does that somehow not apply here?
