Bryce Harrington wrote:
On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 11:37:03PM -0500, Bob Jamison wrote:
I have mentioned this before a couple of times recently. But I think that displaying the GPL and having someone "click thru" it, is a very cool thing. It lets the users feel like they are experiencing something that is a bit subversive. And with the "click," it allows them to be partisans in the Open Source movement.
Hmm, I don't know, I think this might be one of those things that's cool the first time you see it, and then just annoying every time after. ;-)
Don't get me wrong, I am most clearly a strong open source fanatic and quite driven to help encourage others to learn more about free software. I just don't think that popping up a copy of the GPL is going to have that effect; I would imagine people would just close that without reading it. ;-)
I agree, nobody will read it just as nobody read the EULA which is shown by various Microsoft applications in this way.