Peter Wemm wrote:
One key thing to keep in mind is that copyrights apply automatically
regardless of age, contracts etc. You have no right to copy a copyrighted
work unless the right to do so is given to you (or you have statutory
rights such as making backups etc). In this case, you
"Daniel C. Sobral" wrote:
Peter Wemm wrote:
One key thing to keep in mind is that copyrights apply automatically
regardless of age, contracts etc. You have no right to copy a copyrighted
work unless the right to do so is given to you (or you have statutory
rights such as making
"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
Since everyone seems to be jumping up and down on this, I thought I'd
just chime in with my two cents on the matter.
None of that requires Lucent to be any more "open" than they currently
are with the licensing of Eclipse and we really ought to be thanking
them
I'm quite pleased with what we, as individuals, will be able to learn
about Eclipse, and the terms of the license don't interfere with that
one bit. But--and this is my *only* objection to the license terms--we
each are prohibited from discussing what we discover, absent Lucent's
written
Most licenses aren't all that enforceable. I was speaking with a lawyer
friend who theorized that if the person accepting the license was under
18 (in the US at least) then they could do whatever they want with it.
Solution? Have someone download it for you...I'm only 17, anybody want
As one of the masses that could probably be accused of "whining" about the
conditions that eclipse was released under, I figure I better say a little
more. I think what Lucent has done here is "a good thing" ;) At the very
least it gives us a benchmark to work against. At the best, it
Well the idea is that someone under 18 in the US can't legally be party
to a contract, so the contract becomes null and void even if I agree to
it. There's lots of legal precedent on this. It may not be this way in
other countries (I take it Australia is different). So if we get stuck
with
One key thing to keep in mind is that copyrights apply automatically
regardless of age, contracts etc. You have no right to copy a copyrighted
work unless the right to do so is given to you (or you have statutory
rights such as making backups etc). In this case, you don't have the right
to
Since everyone seems to be jumping up and down on this, I thought I'd
just chime in with my two cents on the matter.
I saw the Lucent folks behind this when they first brought a demo of
Eclipse to FreeBSDCon '99 and, frankly, I was just pleased that they
were willing to show up as exhibitors and
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