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Are you baffled when you run an open source application and the GPL pops up?
by reagency 11y ago
Are you baffled when you run an open source application and the GPL pops up?
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoProbably means I accidentally typed "warranty" somewhere to find I have no warranty.
- coldpie 11y agoI don't think I've ever seen this happen. It's not something end users need to agree to, so why would an application show it to end users?
- kefka 11y agoI've seen it on MS platforms when someone packs a GPL program using Windows installers. It's assumed that if you develop for Windows, it's going to be proprietary and a restrictive license. So the packagers have a click-continue EULA boilerplate. And then the open source packager copy-pastes the GPL in the EULA screen. It's annoying, but I have seen it rarely. Thank goodness that Apt doesnt do this.