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what’s wrong with this picture?

By gnuosphere

The following picture shows part of an installation process of a GPLv2 program on the Windows operating system…

GPL Bad

Any guesses? I’ll post the answer in a few days if nobody sees it.

This entry was posted on November 25, 2007 at 7:57 pm and is filed under GPL, copyright, free software, freedom. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

3 Responses to “what’s wrong with this picture?”

  1. David Glenn Says:
    November 26, 2007 at 7:25 am | Reply

    The GPL does not require acceptance to use GPL licensed software, only to distribute it.

  2. gnuosphere Says:
    November 26, 2007 at 8:28 am | Reply

    That’s it.

    I suspect this results from mixing standard installation software common to Windows with a misunderstanding of the GPL. It’s unfortunate as this can lead to confusion regarding the license.

  3. misunderstanding the GPL « GNUosphere Says:
    December 11, 2007 at 3:22 pm | Reply

    [...] In fact, if you’re only using GPL code you don’t even have to agree to the license (sometimes that’s misunderstood too). That is, you’re free to disagree with the license yet install and use the software. [...]

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