Pieter Hartsook wrote:
Even for developers the 'standard' approach for GPL is to state the
license is, for example, GPL 2.0, and then to provide a link back to
the official GPL license site for the details. So I feel even
including the full text of the GPL in the distro is problematic.
I don't feel strongly one way or the other, but I think the "standard"
actually goes the other way - I recently installed The Gimp, and it
shows the GPL on the 2nd screen of the installer. I believe I also saw
it while installing X-Chat for windows ... Firefox/Thunderbird/etc show
the MPL during install as well. Even MS Office shows you a license
during the install.
Alec
And BTW, presenting this to the end-user during the install of an
"end-user version" is especially inappropriate IMHO.
Pieter
On Thu, 03 Mar 2005 13:28:06 -0800, John Anderson
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Is the license appropriate for the executable, or just the source
version of Chandler?
John
Pieter Hartsook wrote:
With the recent introduction of the Windows installer for Chandler the
end-user is presented with a GPL liscense agreement that one MUST
agree to before Chandler will install. I am concerned about the user
experience, and feel that introducing this mandatory step is
off-putting and inappropriate.
While the current versions of Chanler are in fact released under terms
of the GPL, we have here-to-for referenced the license terms in the
documentation and not pushed it in the user's face as the very first
experience in "using" Chandler.
Unless there is some compelling reason for its use I would suggest we
remove this step in the 0.5 release. (When we finally settle on the
actual Chandler end-user licensing terms it might be appropriate to
reintroduce this step during the installation process.)
Pieter Hartsook
OSAF marketing guy
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