At 2007-02-24 16:34:46 +0000, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > you're only in breach of contract if you have been offered an > opportunity to agree to a contract. when i run some program > that uses msvcrt.dll under windows, and i download a newer > version from the net, i never see a copyright message let > alone a contract...
That doesn't seem especially relevant, considering what you said about libraries being distributed freely as a strategic business decision. Microsoft may not care about how msvcrt.dll is used, but it certainly *does* have rights to it under copyright law, whether or not you see a copyright notice. You don't see a contract because they don't care to restrict how you use it. (Maybe their distributing it thus constitutes estoppel when it comes to suing for copyright infringement, but that is an entirely different question.) I'm talking about proprietary libraries whose authors *don't want* you to link to their code and redistribute the result. Oh well. -- ams
