On Mon, 08 Sep 2003, Steve Langasek wrote: > On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:37:47PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: >>I'm not totally convinced one way or another is right, but case law >>and legislation (UCITA, etc.) seems to be going towards leases. > > *NOT* in the case of licenses that are considered free. Could you explain to me why free licenses are going to be treated differently under the law than licenses that are not free? The only argument I've seen so far revolves around consideration, and an easy argument there is the warranty clause and/or ego enhancement by useage. [And even if it still means that they must be treated differently, I'm still at a loss as to how they should be treated differently under law.] Don Armstrong -- Debian's not really about the users or the software at all. It's a large flame-generating engine that the cabal uses to heat their coffee -- Andrew Suffield (#debian-devel Fri, 14 Feb 2003 14:34 -0500) http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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