Re: GtkAda License Question

[Georg Bauhaus <bauhaus@futureapps.de>]

On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 10:46 +0200, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote:
> M E Leypold a écrit :
> >> users are always
> >> required by law to ascertain the licensing terms with the licensor. The
> > 
> > Which is obvious nonsense, since that would render all GPL licensing
> > as practiced presently invalid. Also I'd like to ask "which law"? US
> > law? International copyright law? 
> > 
> Hmmm, before making such a statement, you should know that Robert Dewar 
> *is* a lawyer, i.e. he is a registered expert to the court about matters 
> of software copyright.

Also notice that every time you install just about any software,
then in Europe at least,
you must explicitly (and knowingly) confirm that you agree to the
licensing terms.
I believe it is a requirement of EU contractual procedures that
you must check corresponding boxes. (Which again is probably not
enough for such and such, etc...)
(Opposed to this requirement, I remember arguments that the
sentence "by opening this box you agree to ... contained therein"
is irrelevant.)
IANAL.


Georg