On Tue, Oct 18, 2005 at 02:15:53PM +0200, Arik Kfir wrote: > No, that's ok. The license prohibits you from *redistributing* the > JAR. As long as its for your own use, you're fine.
Depends. In general, people writing non-free licenses make them click-wrap so that they can enforce the restrictions on use they came up with in court. Bypassing the click-wrap mechanisms may or may not result in a valid license for you, and is in general not seen as a good thing by the folks licensing the non-free code in the first place, since they'd have a harder time in court showing the consent agreement to the license, if they had to go there to enforce their restrictions on your use of their non-free work. For example, if $BIGCORP offers X.jar under a non-free click-wrap license, and your script downloads it and does all the clicking through, and then $BIGCORP finds out that you worked around their licensing arrangements, $BIGCORP can take you to court on the basis that you never agreed to their license, so you have no right to use their work (it's non-free by the explicit wish of $BIGCORP). Just because you can obtain someone's non-free work somehow (script, napster, bittorrent), does not mean the $BIGCORP will authorise its use without having established some form of a contract with you (rather than granting you a free for all license). In general, a $BIGCORP peddling in non-free software wants to be able to haul your ass into court if they see it fit, and they don't like the prospect of having to deal with 'uh, but the $INSTALLER script downloaded it all automatically, how am I supposed to know its license, which I never actually agreed to anyway?' claims in a court setting, if they desire to protect their valuable cash-cow restrictions on use/modifications/redistribution in court. Who should $BIGCORP sue then for damages if it turns out it can't enforce its license against some hypothetical 'evil-doers'? Should $BIGCORP sue the script developers?[1] :) cheers, dalibor topic [1] A lot of this has already played out in the p2p field anyway, where corporations have sued end users, distributors, distribution channels, etc, to protect and enforce their restrictions on use. See MGM vs. Grokster for an example of suing the script developers instead of the copyright violators and pushing it all the way through the supreme court of USA. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
