On Fri, 9 Feb 2001, Toby Allsopp wrote:
> I have a problem with this. Software licenses apply only to copying,
> because they are an artifact of copyright law. If you have legally
> obtained the software (for which you may have had to agree to a license
> because you may have copied it) you can *use* it an any way you want.
>
> Deploying a resource adapter is firmly covered by fair use.
However, if you read the spec, it say the license flag indicates
"whether a license is required to deploy and use the resource adapter".
And if you read many licenses, they all seem to grant you the right to use
the product.
Aaron
