Re: Pingus Readme

[David Philippi]

On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 11:18:16AM +0100, Neil Mitchell wrote:
> For the Windows install in particular, having these files is a bit pointless
> as they don't have an appropriate extension, so can't be viewed easily. I
> can see the point of keeping INSTALL.unix separate, as the console concern
> is valid. I however doubt that anyone will read the license on Unix, as by
> now everyone must know what the GPL v2 says, as a good portion of their OS
> is probably already licensed that way. As for Windows users, I doubt they
> will care what the license is, as they can just point their friends at the
> web page to download it. As for authors, including it in the Windows version
> without an extension is bad news, but its name is clear enough if
> appropriately renamed and line feed converted before inclusion.

There's no problem in adding a .txt for the sake of Windows users. As to
reading the license - I doubt that many people have ever read the GPL, it's
like the click-through licenses in a Win32 environment. It's a matter of
legal standing - the license must be included.
For the linefeed - I guess using the Unix variant is better because the
likelyhood of Win32 users reading those files is even less and at least
notepad can cope with it.
 
> Text format or HTML? HTML is easier to navigate around with big sections,
> but text is also good enough and more flexible in terms of viewing/editing.

I'd say we should keep it in text unless there's a convincing reason for
HTML. Text is more flexible so we shouldn't give up that advantage unless we
gain something in this trade.

Bye David