Re: [XBoard-devel] installer

[Tim Mann]

On Sun, 04 Oct 2009 17:16:54 -0600, Eric Mullins <address@hidden> wrote:
> Arun Persaud wrote:
> > an issue came up with the installer. The problem is that we include
> > timeseal which is a closed source program and so we can't host the
> > installer on gnu.org. It's also against GNU policy to link to such an
> > installer on a different site... There doesn't seem to be a good way
> > around this AFAIK, but perhaps we should just host a bare winboard.exe
> > on gnu.org and link to the winforum in general and not to the installer
> > package that includes those closed-source programs. Perhaps we could
> > also have an installer without those programs?
> >
> > What do you all think?
> 
> I must be talking to myself on this list, because I was talking about 
> just this a while back and nobody cared.  So I let it go.

We were listening to you, but were hoping we could continue to provide
a convenient installer for people.  But those two small closed-source
programs turned out to be a deal breaker for the GNU folks.

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Tim Mann  address@hidden  http://tim-mann.org/