On Thu, Dec 05, 2002 at 04:56:10AM +0100, Sunnanvind Fenderson wrote: > Jakob Bohm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Click agree to accept this license and the lack of warranty. > > Click decline to not use, copy or distribute this software. > > The main problem is that that's simply not true - you _can_ use the > software without accepting the license[1].
Ah. I see your confusion now. You really can't legally use the software without accepting the license, but the GPL imposes no conditions upon your acceptance of paragraph 0 which grants you usage rights. You could call this paragraph a "EULA", if you really wanted to, but there's little point in doing so. > This is very different from EULAs because with them the end user gets > *less* rights that normally given by copyright The rights normally given by copyright are virtually nil; you have the right to quote it for critical purposes and so on, but not the right to use it. A "EULA" generally grants you the right to use it. > entering contract law or the like. (And as been pointed out, > click-wraps seems to be a very fuzzy area legally, currently. Are they > void? Valid? Are certain clauses void?) You'd have to take it to court to find out. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | Dept. of Computing, `. `' | Imperial College, `- -><- | London, UK
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