Peter Wemm wrote:
>
> One key thing to keep in mind is that copyrights apply automatically
> regardless of age, contracts etc. You have no right to copy a copyrighted
> work unless the right to do so is given to you (or you have statutory
> rights such as making backups etc). In this case, you don't have the right
> to redistribute it except those granted by the license with it's
> conditions. If you don't accept the license or cannot because you're under
> the age of being able to enter into a contract or whatever, then you can't
> redistribute it *period*. You can download it (they are distributing it,
> not you), and do pretty much whatever you like with it once they've given
> it to you, but you can't give it to anyone else. This means that if you
> were under 18 etc, you probably could use it for commercial purposes if you
> believed the license didn't apply. (And Lucent/whoever *do* own the
> copyright on the additional Eclipse stuff).
So... basically... you can't redistribute GPL code unless law permits
you to enter contracts? How funny... :-)
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