Re: Dangerous precedent being set - possible serious violation of the GPL
Joseph Carter writes:
> On Wed, Dec 01, 1999 at 02:21:08AM -0800, Bruce Perens wrote:
> > > 9. License Must Not Contaminate Other Software
> >
> > 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. But please note that my original criticism never
> > even got to whether or not it was Open Source, I was considering whether
> > or not other software licenses in the distribution were being violated.
>
> If there is _ANY_ EULA that you must agree to before you can have the GPL
> code it's forcing you to agree to their proprietary software terms.
> Having to be 18 has nothing to do with it (other than that it's a
OK, you leave me no choice:
http://ishmael.geecs.org/~sigma/reductiones-ab-absurda/big-beard-software/
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