Rjack <[email protected]> writes: >Rahul Dhesi wrote: >> Rjack <[email protected]> writes: >> >>> Next thing you know you'll be calling a copyright license a contract: >> >> I'm staying out of this license/contract debate, but since you are not, >> how do you justify calling it a contract in the specific case that the >> person downloading GPL software hasn't agreed to the license terms? ... >"Downloading" constitutes "a manifestation of assent".
So if the downloader doesn't know about the license, or knows about it but explicitly refuses to agree to it as he does the download, this is still a manifestation of assent? Merriam-Webster says assent means "to agree to something especially after thoughtful consideration". Are you using the word with some other meaning? -- Rahul http://rahul.rahul.net/ _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
