On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:50:27PM +0530, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > AFAIK, RMS & FSF are of view that software under the GPL does not > require an `I agree' button. Do not have a link ready on hand right > now.
That's what he means by "agreed to by conduct"; for example, if the only means you have to redistribute a work is a contract, and you redistribute it, your conduct is (may be, IANAL) indicating agreement to the contract (even though you didn't sign anything or click any buttons). (It's not clear whether that applies here, since you don't need any special license to simply use software, so using the software doesn't seem to indicate agreement to anything; this is the point of Sean's argument I'm trying to understand.) I think there's wide agreement here that forced click-wrap licenses are non-free, and very impractical. I've seen installers in Windows requiring an explicit agreement for the GPL; that's just confusion, or maybe people dropping the GPL into a default "paste your license here" installer template ... -- Glenn Maynard -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
