On Friday, June 3, 2016 at 9:53:47 PM UTC+12, Steven D'Aprano wrote:

> A licence is something like a contract...

A licence is quite different from a contract. A contract requires some 
indication of explicit agreement by both parties, a licence does not. That’s 
why Free Software licences only have to say something like “by using this 
software, you agree to the following terms...”, because if the user doesn’t 
accept the licence, then they have no licence.

EULAs for proprietary software, on the other hand, try to have it both ways, by 
having a clause like the above, as well as requiring you to click an “I Agree” 
button or some such.
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