[openMSX-devel] openMSX license agreement?

[Max A. F. <ma...@co...>]

As part of pulling together a WiX-based MSI installer for openMSX on
Windows, the question of providing a license agreement popped up. Mainly
because WiX asks for one as part of the setup UI when using pre-provided UI
templates.

While I suspect a license agreement for an openMSX binary distribution would
be along the lines of "enjoy", I took the liberty of cribbing the following
from the existing README file.  It's not exactly a license agreement, but it
did seem to capture the spirit of what we'd want to say.

Any thoughts on how this text should change in order to make for a license
agreement that reflects the spirit of openMSX?

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<bold>openMSX is the MSX emulator that aims for perfection</bold>
openMSX comes with a set of HTML manuals that tell what you need to know to
install, configure and run openMSX. You can find these manuals in the
directory 'manual' inside the directory 'doc'. You can read them using a web
browser.
You can read what has changed in this and the previous releases in the
release notes. You can find the release notes of this release in the file
'release-notes.txt' in the directory 'doc'. Highlights of previous releases
can be found in 'release-history.txt'.
All source code and other works that are part of, or distributed with
openMSX are copyrighted by their respective authors. The file 'AUTHORS'
contains a list of people who made works for openMSX or contributed works to
openMSX.
Some source files contain a license notice; all other source files are
licensed under the GNU Public License (GPL), of which you can find a copy in
the file 'GPL'. If you got a binary release of openMSX and are interested in
the sources, please visit our home page:
    http://openmsx.sourceforge.net/
Happy MSX-ing!
                        the openMSX developers