On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 11:17 AM, Lev Veyde <lve...@redhat.com> wrote: > Hi Christophe, > > That's not the same. The installer is produced with NSIS, and I see no reason > to hide it. > > It can be run on Windows, Fedora and a plenty of other OSes, so it's > irrelevant. > I'm also not saying about giving the attribution to all the libraries that we > use, the user could find all the info if he's interested. > > Showing and make the NSIS brand on the other side is important - first to > make more users aware of it's existence and second to show that it's actually > being used by serious projects. > Also, most commercial installers prominently show their copyright/trademark > notice in the installer with no option to remove or alter it's appearance, so > the very fact that NSIS as an open source product gives you an option to > remove the copyright, doesn't mean you should do it unless there is an > absolute necessity for this. > > Also IMHO, the need of the open source community is more important than some > aesthetics considerations. > > Thanks in advance, > Lev Veyde. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Christophe Fergeau" <cferg...@redhat.com> > To: "Lev Veyde" <lve...@redhat.com> > Cc: spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org > Sent: Friday, October 23, 2015 12:10:12 PM > Subject: Re: [Spice-devel] [NSIS 3/7] packaging: Re-enable NSIS branding > > On Thu, Oct 22, 2015 at 08:26:29AM -0400, Lev Veyde wrote: >> Hi, >> >> Almost all installers provide this kind of info, and the idea is to show it >> so everyone, including ones who don't really know how and where to search >> will get a pointer. >> So I think it's a good idea to tell everyone who runs the installer >> "it's produced with NSIS", so that anyone who may need to build an >> installer of it's own could search for it. > > I really disagree on that, this will not be useful for many people, and > then, we should also advertise the installer is built on fedora, that > it's free software, that it uses macro X and Y, ... so that anyone who > need to build an installer knows it's possible to do it this way. > I'm not against saying we use NSIS, but the way it's done is too > intrusive, so let's hide it ;)
If you only object to the aesthetics, and not the principle, can you please state what should be done to make it nice enough for you? Searching for 'branding' in [1] does find a few tunables. [1] http://nsis.sourceforge.net/Docs/Chapter4.html -- Didi _______________________________________________ Spice-devel mailing list Spice-devel@lists.freedesktop.org http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/spice-devel
