This article doesn't apply to the GPL and I didn't say it did. I don't agree with their position on assent, but I will defend their right to hold to that position. /Larry
> -----Original Message----- > From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@;reutershealth.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 8:16 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: Manifestation of Assent > > > Lawrence E. Rosen scripsit: > > > There's been much discussion lately about click-wrap licenses. I'm > > attaching an article I wrote on this topic for my Linux Journal > > column. Please don't distribute this article without my > permission so > > that Linux Journal will have the opportunity to publish it first. > > /Larry Rosen > > Thanks for the preview. > > I realize that typeface is inelastic, but I wish you had > squeezed in a sentence about the GPL's view of assent: you > assent by copying, modifying, or distributing, since these > are things that would otherwise be forbidden by law. > > -- > He made the Legislature meet at one-horse John Cowan > tank-towns out in the alfalfa belt, so that > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > hardly nobody could get there and most of > http://www.reutershealth.com > the leaders would stay home and > let him go http://www.ccil.org/~cowan > to work and do things as he pleased. --Mencken, > _Declaration of Independence_ > -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
