----- Original Message ----- From: "Elizabeth Barham" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, April 22, 2002 2:04 AM Subject: Re: Is Cygwin legal under Windows XP?
> This whole thing seems kind of iffy in regards to Microsoft's > position. While Microsoft has some authority, consumers do too and > Windows XP's EULA may violate some consumer rights (I don't know of > any off hand, though). But even if it doesn't violate any at the > moment, it violates what I consider my own "consumer rights" - I have > the right to run any program I want to on any computer I own, > including Microsoft Operating Systems. > > And what is this EULA anyway? If I purchase software, do I or do I not > own the software? And can I or can I not do anything I want to with it > - I mean, it's mine and they sold it to me. Or am I "leasing" the > software from someone? > > It's one thing for an EULA to say, "You may have one copy of this > piece of software running on at most one computer at any time," but > another thing for it to say what I can use the software for. EU law says: (3) In accordance with the provisions of the Berne Convention for the protection of Literary and Artistic Works, the provisions of this Article may not be interpreted in such a way as to allow its application to be used in a manner which unreasonably prejudices the right holder's legitimate interests or conflicts with a normal exploitation of the computer program. I would say a clause that prevents me from running sshd to allow me to remotely adminster my computer conflicts with a normal exploitation of the computer program (Windows XP). Chris -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Bug reporting: http://cygwin.com/bugs.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
