From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Lennart Borgman" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs Installer for MS Windows Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 00:12:03 +0200 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <001401c47a70$18cb02a0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> References: <001401c478de$908a92d0$0200a8c0@sedrcw11488> <1091508072.20683.201576204@webmail.messagingengine.com> <4111491A.4090601@runestig.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1091657518 20583 80.91.224.253 (4 Aug 2004 22:11:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Aug 2004 22:11:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Emacs Devel Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 05 00:11:47 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BsTz9-0005LT-00 for ; Thu, 05 Aug 2004 00:11:47 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BsU2e-0008BB-Mq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:15:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BsU20-000807-HS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:14:44 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BsU1y-0007zT-NZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:14:44 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BsU1y-0007zJ-Jl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:14:42 -0400 Original-Received: from [81.228.11.115] (helo=av9-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1BsTyH-0005UZ-R3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 04 Aug 2004 18:10:54 -0400 Original-Received: by av9-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix, from userid 502) id 4377537E5C; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 00:10:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net [81.228.11.164]) by av9-1-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 333C837E43; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 00:10:52 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from sedrcw11488 (t5o58p91.telia.com [195.67.196.91]) by smtp3-2-sn1.fre.skanova.net (Postfix) with SMTP id 1275637E47; Thu, 5 Aug 2004 00:10:50 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: "Stefan Monnier" X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1409 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1409 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:26184 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:26184 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Stefan Monnier" ... > > 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