On Thu, 2004-03-04 at 09:53, Ebadat A.R. wrote: > > > Buying a > > > software means you are getting license to use this software as it is. > There > > > is no license for presenting this software on the web. > > > > But we are not talking about software here. Information is different > > from software. It really depends on how you define software. Is an MS > > Word document software? > > When you are talking about MS Word document, you mean a document that you > wrote before. Is it possible to use MS Word Spell Checker in your website? > If you check the license agreement of MS word, you can see that you have no > permission to use this part of MS Word except in this software.
We were not talking about software or software features here. Let's say you buy a CD that contains some poems from Khayyam. Are you not allowed to provide that *information* (poems from Khayyam) on your website? > when you buy a software you should check the License > Agreement . That is right. If it has a license agreement of course. > You have permission based on License Agreement and if you don't > accept this agreement , you are not allowed to install and use this > software. When you install this software , it means you agree with License > Agreement . That is not true. Who says that? Is there a law in Iran saying that? No, there is not. If you want to prove that someone has agreed to something without anyone being present there, you should show her/his signature. Lemme make an example: I go buy a software from a shop. I want to install and use the software. In the license, it says that "You may not use or install this software if your father is a Muslim, even if you have paid for it". My father is a muslim, but I see that I really need to run the software. So I click "I agree", and continue. The software gets installed, I use it, no one gets harmed, end of story. Have I agreed/confirmed that my father is not a muslim? No! I did something with my computer at my home. I did not break any laws (there is no law about clicking). I did not break any contracts (a contract without a signature is not valid), I did not ... If I buy a chair and there is a big nail on the seat with a note that "you may not sit on this chair if you are born in Tehran, and by removing this nail you agree that your are not born there", may I sit on the chair, or should I return it to the vendor instead, saying "Oh, you've given me the shahrestani-only chair. Would you please change it for me, or return me the money?" License Agreement does not have any legal backing in Iran (there are claims that it doesn't have the backing in US or other countries either). But copyright does. > Anyway, I think , License Agreement is the most important piece of a package > or software. Honestly, license agreements are not applicable in Iran (and many other countries). License Agreements may be important if you live in US and some other countries, but don't have a case in Iran. In Iran, you only have the copyright law. roozbeh _______________________________________________ PersianComputing mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.sharif.edu/mailman/listinfo/persiancomputing
