From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,d4d70a6d53a28095 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,UTF8 Path: g2news2.google.com!news4.google.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!newsfeed.hanau.net!news-fra1.dfn.de!newsfeed.ision.net!newsfeed2.easynews.net!ision!newsfeed.arcor.de!news.arcor.de!not-for-mail Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: GtkAda License Question From: Georg Bauhaus In-Reply-To: References: <1150717691.939423.322620@p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Organization: # Message-ID: <1150810262.12414.7.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.6.1 Date: Tue, 20 Jun 2006 15:31:02 +0200 NNTP-Posting-Date: 20 Jun 2006 15:29:59 MEST NNTP-Posting-Host: 01f3836f.newsread2.arcor-online.net X-Trace: DXC=\eTjPOnn5\g<_V8dMIHdjhQ5U85hF6f;djW\KbG]kaMhVA=iV<7g:2eie[A?`kAL3dljUVjRQ60?bVmnOeiOY3@ng[50F7T5IOb X-Complaints-To: usenet-abuse@arcor.de Xref: g2news2.google.com comp.lang.ada:4855 Date: 2006-06-20T15:29:59+02:00 List-Id: On Tue, 2006-06-20 at 10:46 +0200, Jean-Pierre Rosen wrote: > M E Leypold a =C3=A9crit : > >> users are always > >> required by law to ascertain the licensing terms with the licensor. Th= e > >=20 > > 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?=20 > >=20 > Hmmm, before making such a statement, you should know that Robert Dewar=20 > *is* a lawyer, i.e. he is a registered expert to the court about matters=20 > 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=20