Re: Can Java code EVER be GPLd, at all?

[Mark Wells]

On Sun, 14 Nov 1999, Brian Behlendorf wrote:

> On Sat, 13 Nov 1999, Mark Wells wrote:
> > "Welcome to our FTP archive.  Please note that by downloading software
> > from this archive you are indicating that you have read and agreed to the
> > terms of the Fanatical Public License.  If you do not agree to this
> > license, please disconnect now."
> 
> Nope.  If the terms of the license go beyond what copyright law provides 
> for (such as covering use), it has to be a clickwrap license, meaning an
> explicit "I agree" stage, that can't easilly be automated around.

I suppose you're right, but there are ways to make it harder to automate
around.  Again, the FTP sites for cryptographic software have to do this
sort of thing.