[Dev] EULA in Chandler 0.5?
John Anderson
john at osafoundation.org
Thu Mar 3 13:28:06 PST 2005
Is the license appropriate for the executable, or just the source
version of Chandler?
John
Pieter Hartsook wrote:
>With the recent introduction of the Windows installer for Chandler the
>end-user is presented with a GPL liscense agreement that one MUST
>agree to before Chandler will install. I am concerned about the user
>experience, and feel that introducing this mandatory step is
>off-putting and inappropriate.
>
>While the current versions of Chanler are in fact released under terms
>of the GPL, we have here-to-for referenced the license terms in the
>documentation and not pushed it in the user's face as the very first
>experience in "using" Chandler.
>
>Unless there is some compelling reason for its use I would suggest we
>remove this step in the 0.5 release. (When we finally settle on the
>actual Chandler end-user licensing terms it might be appropriate to
>reintroduce this step during the installation process.)
>
>Pieter Hartsook
>OSAF marketing guy
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