Sáb, 2007-05-26 às 18:44 -0500, John Hasler escreveu: > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra writes: > > No, the license is not a contract, it is a Copyright License. > > He means the Microsoft EULA, and yes, it is a contract and not a copyright > license. In order to be a copyright license it would have to yield some of > the exclusive rights of the copyright owner. It does not. The GPL, on the > other hand, _is_ a copyright license.
No, even the MS-EULA is a copyright license. However, since it's conditions remove more rights from you than those explicitly removed from copyright, it has to explicitly ask your permission or they would be illegal. Rui -- + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown + Whatever you do will be insignificant, | but it is very important that you do it -- Gandhi + So let's do it...?
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