On Mon, 10 Oct 2005, Neil Mitchell wrote: > > I suggest that you at least add gpl.txt file to the > > installation package and install it to the > > installation folder. And if possible, show that during > > the installation also. > > I wrote the installer and I intentionally chose not to show the GPL > license. The GPL is written in a way such that by using a binary you > do not have to accept the GPL, you only have to accept it if you > choose to modify the source code - and the source isn't even in the > windows installer package.
End users are not required to explicitly accept the license by clicking somewhere - its their responsibility of accepting license terms othervise they have no rights to even run the program (not only for modyfying source code). But you, as a distributor of gpl licensed program, must let them know, what they rights are. > Plus most windows users don't care! And if you show a license which > you know 90% of people won't read, then legally you didn't actually > show them a license. Armed with that, a license clickthrough is a bit > of a waste of time. Of course, license in COPYING.txt file + info in the menu screen of the game should be enough. No clicking necessary. -- Tomáš Bláha e-mail: tomas.blaha at kapsa.cz JabberID: tomiiik at jabber.cz ICQ: 76239430 _______________________________________________ Pingus-Devel mailing list Pingus-Devel@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pingus-devel