Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote:
You can't run most source code. You must compile it, which is
preparing a derivative work.
Not quite...
[T]he U.S. Copyright Office has traditionally taken the view that object
code is not a derivative work of source code. Instead, the Copyright
Officers
Sunnanvind Fenderson wrote:
If users disagree with the copyright license they must refrain from
distributing the program - lest they are in violation of copyright
law.
This is being disputed in some courts, accepted in some. It's unclear
what law it uses. Contract law? Can I say By reading
Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:
Mahesh T. Pai wrote:
Here, we are presented with a case where one click is
intended to indicate assent to license A, B, C, D, E,
(ad infinitum; minimum 800 as in a linux distro). No, the
click wrap notice will not hold in a court of law.
Want to bet? Whose
Your answer added nothing to the discussion. Please give some legal
argument why a single click-wrap won't bind the licensee to all relevant
licenses. Quoting from my words is not a reason. If you think
different words would work better, please suggest them.
/Larry
-Original
Mahesh T Pai [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
We also want to reduce the threat of users suing us. Therefore, click
wrap is about product liability. When we tell the courts that we are
not liable because we have a contract to which the plaintiff has
assented to, according to which we are not
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote, in part:
Your answer added nothing to the discussion. Please give some legal
argument why a single click-wrap won't bind the licensee to all relevant
licenses.
How do you form a contract without presenting the terms? Is there a
way to review the terms without
Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:
To: License-discuss
After private follow-up discussion among interested parties, I am
proposing the following Open Source Click-Wrap Notice that can be used
for the distribution of open source software.
I seek the review of the participants on license-discuss,
Lawrence E. Rosen wrote:
To: License-discuss
After private follow-up discussion among interested parties,
I am proposing the following Open Source Click-Wrap Notice
that can be used for the distribution of open source software.
I seek the review of the participants on
'Forrest J. Cavalier III' wrote:
How do you form a contract without presenting the terms? Is there a
way to review the terms without clicking? Is such vague
language sufficient to incorporate all the terms (of those
possibly 800
licenses) by reference? Seems against common sense to me.
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