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=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,43ae7f61992b3213 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-Thread: 103376,faf964ea4531e6af X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: Robert Dewar Subject: Re: GPL and "free" software Date: 1999/04/27 Message-ID: <7g4ncj$vme$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 471497534 References: <7fibd5$jc7$1@news2.tor.accglobal.net> <7fudch$hsv$1@nnrp1.dejanews.com> <3723c38b@eeyore.callnetuk.com> <7g2gqk$ffk$1@52-a-usw.rb1.blv.nwnexus.net> <925171876snz@vision25.demon.co.uk> X-Http-Proxy: 1.0 x12.dejanews.com:80 (Squid/1.1.22) for client 205.232.38.14 Organization: Deja News - The Leader in Internet Discussion X-Article-Creation-Date: Tue Apr 27 16:07:51 1999 GMT Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada,gnu.misc.discuss X-Http-User-Agent: Mozilla/4.04 [en] (OS/2; I) Date: 1999-04-27T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article Of course, traditional shrink-wrapped licenses have to > include a phrase where you may return the unused software > if you do not agree with the license. I do not know of any such requirement. I quickly checked and it is not in the Illinois statute as far as I can see, to which shrink-wrapped statute are you referring. It does not appear to be in the federal statute either. > > This is not the case with GPLed software, as GPLed > software grants you only additional freedoms over the > case where you would buy software > without an explicit license. This is quite wrong, the GPL is no different from any other software license, its terms may or may not be acceptable to the purchaser of the license. Indeed in the install shield for NT, we give people the chance to reject the GPL conditions, as seems appropriate. Note that you do not usually buy software, you buy the license, and the GPL is no different from any other license in this respect. If you "buy" GPL'ed software, you have not bought it in the legal sense, you have just bought the license. -----------== Posted via Deja News, The Discussion Network ==---------- http://www.dejanews.com/ Search, Read, Discuss, or Start Your Own