From: "Lennart Borgman" <lennart.borgman.073@student.lu.se>
Cc: Emacs Devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows
Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 00:12:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <001401c47a70$18cb02a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> (raw)
In-Reply-To: jwvzn5asjhk.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org
----- Original Message -----
From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
...
> > Why? Why should "lusers" install new software on a computer?
>
> Why not? If the admin gave them the right to do that (which is the case
by
> default)?
>
> Stefan
>
> PS: Another request: make sure the installer does not require to agree to
> the GPL before installing. You can put a blurb about "this is GPL'd
> isn't that grand", but don't put one of those silly "you have to agree
> to the licence before I can continue" thingies since the GPL is
> irrelevant to the user's right to install and run the software.
An interesting discussion ;-)
Good point. I believe I am beginning to understand why the guys in Redmond
put up the license agreement in such a small window: it has to be there, but
they do not want to disturb. I actually have to read the license I put in
the install kit ;-(
- Lennart
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-08-04 22:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-08-02 22:17 Emacs Installer for MS Windows Lennart Borgman
2004-08-03 4:41 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-08-04 20:37 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-04 20:55 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-05 6:51 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-05 6:55 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-05 7:26 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-05 8:18 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-08-05 14:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-06 4:17 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-08-06 13:43 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-06 13:56 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-06 17:07 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-27 21:26 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-06 15:39 ` Frank Schmitt
2004-08-07 16:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-23 19:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-23 19:51 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-24 18:13 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-24 18:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-24 19:31 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-24 19:58 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-25 0:06 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-25 2:51 ` Stefan
2004-08-26 18:27 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 18:35 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-26 21:00 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-26 21:41 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-25 4:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-25 7:09 ` Peter 'Luna' Runestig
2004-08-25 16:01 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-25 18:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-26 15:17 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2004-08-26 16:09 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 16:21 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2004-08-26 18:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-26 16:29 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2004-08-26 16:58 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 17:40 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2004-08-26 18:38 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-27 6:52 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2004-08-26 18:42 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 19:41 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-26 22:17 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-27 9:22 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-27 13:20 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-27 13:38 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-27 15:08 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-27 15:24 ` Gian Uberto Lauri
2004-08-27 15:42 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-28 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-27 15:16 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-27 15:47 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-28 1:36 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-27 15:44 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-27 16:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 15:51 ` Vinicius Jose Latorre
2004-08-26 16:52 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-26 19:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-26 19:49 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-23 19:59 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-24 5:37 ` Dhruva Krishnamurthy
2004-08-24 16:33 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-08-24 21:02 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-24 21:09 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-25 4:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-25 16:21 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-25 18:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-25 4:41 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-05 11:18 ` Paul Pogonyshev
2004-08-05 15:33 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-04 21:09 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-04 22:12 ` Lennart Borgman [this message]
2004-08-05 2:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2004-08-05 2:40 ` David Kastrup
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-08-04 21:42 Robert Anderson
2004-08-24 7:04 Berndl, Klaus
2004-08-24 17:35 ` Steven Tamm
2004-08-24 18:08 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-24 21:20 ` Steven Tamm
2004-08-24 21:35 ` Stefan Monnier
2004-08-25 1:02 ` Steven Tamm
2004-08-25 2:38 ` Stefan
2004-08-25 4:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-08-25 7:48 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-24 21:55 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-25 0:14 ` Lennart Borgman
2004-08-25 0:24 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-25 4:41 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-25 7:56 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-25 22:40 ` Richard Stallman
2004-08-25 23:03 ` David Kastrup
2004-08-26 7:04 ` Kim F. Storm
2004-08-26 7:56 ` David Kastrup
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