Re: [Audacity-devel] [BUG] Windows: GPL licence screen does not need to be *accepted*
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From: Vaughan J. <va...@au...> - 2009-03-26 22:51:50
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Chris Cannam wrote: > On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 10:10 PM, Chris Cannam > <ca...@al...> wrote: > >> Personally, I like seeing the GPL in a click-through window on the >> installer. >> > > Though, if it's true (I don't have Windows to hand here) that it says > you must accept before you can go on, then that could be worded > better. For example, if it just suggested that you should read it or > be aware of it rather than insisting you accept. It could still ask > you to take some clicky action before you can go any further. > > I'm quite sure that asking you to accept is not a violation of the GPL > though, any more than it would be to ask you to accept that 2+2=4 > before you can run the program. Precisely because the GPL isn't an > agreement, there is nothing in it to agree to in any legal sense, so > the only possible interpretation of acceptance is simply > acknowledgement that these are the terms under which the program was > distributed to you. That is surely not any kind of legal commitment > or restriction. > > > Thanks, Chris. I thought about that, just making it an information screen rather than agree/don't agree, but we use InnoSetup for the installer, and it's license page feature is not modifiable. I could probably remove that page and create a custom page, but as you indicate, there's no legal commitment, so no reason not to accept it. I can't recall this ever having come up before, and I know of no cases out of tens of millions of users, where it was a problem. So, I think we have better things to do than to change it. - Vaughan |