Re: Who can make binding legal agreements
John Goerzen writes ("Re: Who can make binding legal agreements"):
> The first paragraph of the license linked to by the original
> announcement:
>
> SUN MICROSYSTEMS, INC. ("SUN") IS WILLING TO LICENSE THE JAVA PLATFORM
> STANDARD EDITION DEVELOPER KIT ("JDK" - THE "SOFTWARE") TO YOU ONLY
Yes, but who is `YOU' ? It's not SPI. SPI has not delegated to
anyone the power to bind SPI to these contracts. It's not Debian,
since Debian isn't a legal entity. So `you' must refer to
the ftpmasters, mirror maintainers, users, etc. etc. etc. After all
it's those people who are otherwise violating Sun's copyright.
> 2) That the ftp-masters lack the legal authority to do this, in which
> case Debian (and by extension, SPI) is in violation of the Sun
> copyright on Java by distributing it outside the terms of a valid,
> in-force license
My interpretation is that the ftpmasters have (foolishly) indemnified
Sun.
Ian.
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