"Dick Hollenbeck" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Never in my life have I agreed to a license by reading or
> buying a publicly available book. (Other than being bound
> by copyright law.) I have no knowledge of any case law
> that suggests this is on a par with opening a shrink wrap
> license. Sun is wishing that this "licensee consent" is
> taking place with the purchase of a book, but this is far
> from accepted practice. In fact, it is one of the very
> cornerstones on which HP makes it case that it can it can
> freely use the ideas in the JVM spec without having
> licensed it for Chai. It simply bought a book, publicly
> available.
I don't know what the legal standing here is. I don't know what it
means for some writer to agree to the SCSL and write a book on the
subject covered by the license and then what sort of restrictions
readers of such a book fall under. My assumption was that the law in
the US would be structured to the benefit of the original creator, in
this case Sun. Is this a loophole out of all the specification
licensing crap Sun is dishing out? Paul, you should be able to get
this sort of question answered for us from the FSF legal counsel.
Brian
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