Re: click once, accept all licenses.

2002-08-12 Thread Mahesh T Pai
Carol A. Kunze wrote: I don't think this can work. A third party - in this case the distributor - cannot cause a contract to be entered into between two parties, one of whom is not present. Yes. This I have pointed out earlier. And how can a person who is not present be saddled with

Re: Legal soundness comes to open source distribution

2002-08-12 Thread Russell Nelson
[ Catching up on mail from ten days ago ] Carol A. Kunze writes: Here is the theoretical difference between proprietary and traditional (GPL, BSD) free software. With the former the user agrees to a license and does not get title to the copy of the program. Without agreeing to the

Re: Legal soundness comes to open source distribution

2002-08-12 Thread Bruce Dodson
I thought that section 117 was about the right to crack a program's copy protection (if necessary) in order to make a legitimate backup copy. Well, that's an oversimplification, but I think it's closer to the truth than Mr. Bernstein's argument. It goes to show that you shouldn't believe every