Windows (and Mac OS X?) packagers: GPL is not a EULA nor a clickthrough

[Jordi Gutiérrez Hermoso]

For packagers making installers for Octave, I want to express a
personal request.

I know it's common practice to make Windows installers where you press
next, next, next until the program is installed. If you've made one of
those for Octave, usually one of the next buttons is about a license,
at least that is the case with the NSIS installer. If it's possible to
omit that screen entirely, please do so. If not, please put some bogus
text in there explaining how the NSIS installer makes it difficult to
omit this screen but that you don't need to accept the GPL in order to
use Octave. Please also do similar for the Mac OS X bundle if it works
in a similar fashion.

I think it's a small but important thing, to de-condition users that
software requires agreeing to legalese to be used. The GPL doesn't
require a clickthrough, because if you don't agree to it, you simply
have no legal right to the software. Section 9 of GPLv3 already grants
this right anyway. A EULA takes your rights away; the GPL grants them.
They're fundamentally different. And please make it easier for users
to understand this.

Thanks,
- Jordi G. H.