Johannes Schindelin <Johannes.Schindelin@xxxxxx> writes: > On Mon, 6 Oct 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > > On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 04:22:08PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > > > On Fri, 3 Oct 2008, Petr Baudis wrote: > > > > > > > -InfoBeforeFile=gpl-2.0.rtf > > > > > > I'd rather keep it in, especially in a corporate environment. > > > > why? How is it relevant for the users? > > To give them an idea about their _rights_. Because they are entitled by > the GPL to get -- in source -- the changes that were done to that > particular distributions. > > Speaking from experience, companies usually do not want to tell you about > your rights with regard to free software. > > And in this case, I have a personal interest. I feel that my efforts to > the msysGit project are not really rewarded. People like to use it, but > they hardly give anything back (you being a very notable exception). Wouldn't it be better to keep it, but move it from EULA position to for example 'License' item in 'Help' entry (below 'About') in gitk and git-gui? IIRC there was a lot of controversy about Firefox using EULA, although MS Windows users are most probably used to it... -- Jakub Narebski Poland ShadeHawk on #git -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe git" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
