On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 01:28:52PM +0100, Henning Makholm wrote: > > You may have a point. If you have to click something that says you > > are 18 _before_ you download the GPL part, that's probably part of a > > contaminating license. > > No, they are just selecting who *they* want to distribute the software > to. You don't have to agree to not giving the copy you downloaded to > a minor. > > There's no general rule of "if you distribute to anyone you must > distribute to everyone". (Personally I'd call such a rule non-free, too). As I read it (possibly incorrectly, I guess I'll wait for RIchard's lawyer on that one) your use of the entire dist is conditionally based upon your acceptance and following of the license. In fact, it explicitly tells you that you're not downloading a COPY of the software, but rather a LICENSE to access a copy as they allow. That in and of itself is an attempt to circumvent the Fair Use provision of Copyright law and is offensive. As I've already said, I believe it's also a GPL violation, but we'll see. -- - Joseph Carter GnuPG public key: 1024D/DCF9DAB3, 2048g/3F9C2A43 - knghtbrd@debian.org 20F6 2261 F185 7A3E 79FC 44F9 8FF7 D7A3 DCF9 DAB3 -------------------------------------------------------------------------- I'm sorry if the following sounds combative and excessively personal, but that's my general style. -- Ian Jackson
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