Mahesh T Pai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > We also want to reduce the threat of users suing us. Therefore, click > wrap is about product liability. When we tell the courts that we are > not liable because we have a contract to which the plaintiff has > assented to, according to which we are not liable, the courts will also > ask for proof that the user accepted those terms. He cannot accept > those terms unless he was told of them. Can he? This is where click > wrap comes in. CW has nothing to do with copyright/left. > > And therefore, neither the "replacement dialog" suggested by you, nor > the "click wrap notice" suggested by Mr Rosen earlier on this list would > be of any help to disclaim product liability.
I see. Well, then I don't know a suggestion (other than that I hope the open source initiative would choose to discuss this with the FSF or Debian before making a decision), so I'll stay out of this. Thanks for reading. > Regarding protection of the programmers' copyrights, unless the user > accepts the license, he (the user) cannot distribute the software, anyway. That's what I said. -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
