Hi, On Mon, Oct 06, 2008 at 05:23:19PM +0200, Johannes Schindelin wrote: > 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). Maybe this is a little of a misunderstanding. This is not a "consumer" aimed customized Git version. This is for internal Git usage within the corporation, the users have varying interest in Git but it is generally very low, they just regard it as another tool and they will never hack or customize it; I just don't see a point in bothering them with another extra installation step. Maybe in more general Git distribution I would agree this change indeed is not that appropriate (even though in my own GPL'd project, I wouldn't add the GPL step to the installer anyway). -- Petr "Pasky" Baudis People who take cold baths never have rheumatism, but they have cold baths. -- 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
