On 9/25/06, simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > This is probably going to start a flame war, but heh winter is coming > and we all need to keep warm :-) > > Do you need to agree to the GPL license prior to using an application > licensed under it? >
IANAL For a better answer I suggest several days browsing the Groklaw archives. In short, no. The gist of the recent German court decision was that if you did not accept the License, you had no further rights to distribute it. i.e. You were then in breach of the terms and deserved what you got.(assuming you were re-distributing) However, if you are NOT redistributing it, there is no need to do anything. It could be said that this is *accepting* the license. But there is no "formal" accepting as such. Some software I think has some click-thru stuff, but some do not. One thing that some people find suprising, is that if you take a piece of GPL software for internal use only, you can do what you want and do not have to give any of the mods back. If you then give it to a client or any outsider, *then* you have to follow the terms. Of course most people who mod GPL stuff have figured out the advantages to sharing and do so. To repeat, I Am Not A Lawyer, also, I have mislaid my Asbestos underwear, so I shal now leave. G _______________________________________________ clug-talk mailing list [email protected] http://clug.ca/mailman/listinfo/clug-talk_clug.ca Mailing List Guidelines (http://clug.ca/ml_guidelines.php) **Please remove these lines when replying
