Savva Kerdemelidis scripsit: > I'm not sure what you mean by "user" licence - you can't grant the right to > "use" software under copyright law, only the right to make copies and make > derivative works. "Use" could be considered a "pseudo-right". If the BSD > disclaimers won't affect anybody (or only affect 'developers' not 'users') > why are they there?
A user license is one suitable for software users who are not interested in making or distributing copies, verbatim or modified. It's usually called an end user license agreement, or EULA. Most proprietary software is distributed under such a license. > If users receive a copy of the code and have notice of the license that > applies to the software why wouldn't they be bound by the disclaimer? Because the disclaimer is not a condition of the license, it's simply physically annexed to it. Note that it's not given a number or bullet. > Yes, it is possible to have multi-licensed code, but if subsequent license > is in conflict with conditions in the BSD license (e.g endorsement clause, > disclaimer clause), wouldn't this breach the BSD license? If the endorsement clause is violated, that's a breach. But there is no way to violate the disclaimer, and as noted it is not a condition. It just tells you that you don't have certain rights you might otherwise expect to have. > As above, surely the disclaimer over the software is binding on Charlie if > it is a condition of receiving a copy of the BSD licensed code and Charlie > is aware of the license terms? But it isn't a condition. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were: any man's death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee. --John Donne _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss