On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:16:54 -0600, Eric Mullins <[email protected]> wrote: > Arun Persaud wrote: > > an issue came up with the installer. The problem is that we include > > timeseal which is a closed source program and so we can't host the > > installer on gnu.org. It's also against GNU policy to link to such an > > installer on a different site... There doesn't seem to be a good way > > around this AFAIK, but perhaps we should just host a bare winboard.exe > > on gnu.org and link to the winforum in general and not to the installer > > package that includes those closed-source programs. Perhaps we could > > also have an installer without those programs? > > > > What do you all think? > > I must be talking to myself on this list, because I was talking about > just this a while back and nobody cared. So I let it go.
We were listening to you, but were hoping we could continue to provide a convenient installer for people. But those two small closed-source programs turned out to be a deal breaker for the GNU folks. -- Tim Mann [email protected] http://tim-mann.org/
