Re: Bug#317359: kde: ..3'rd "Help"->"About $KDE-app" tab calls the GPL "License Agreement", ie; a contract.
On 7/10/05, Glenn Maynard <glenn@zewt.org> wrote:
> On Sun, Jul 10, 2005 at 11:56:50AM +0200, Marco d'Itri wrote:
> > Maybe impractical, but so far I can't see why they should be non-free.
>
> Now you're claiming that an impractical license can be free? I think
> your notion of what is "free" is so patently absurd that I can't be
> bothered to argue with you--"we require the freedom to modify and
> distribute, but license restrictions that make those freedoms impractical
> to exercise are fine!"
Glenn, you said that "click-wrap" licenses are impractical and Marco
agreed with you. You said nothing about the license contents. If
you're wanting to take issue with Marco's agreement with your position
that the "click-wrap" method of accepting a license is impractical,
please keep in mind that the method by which a user agrees to a
license has nothing to do with the contents of that license.
I'm unclear how on the one hand you can say they are impractical
(click-wrap licenses) and then call absurd someone's agreement with
that contention. Can you please clarify this disconnect?
--
Chris
"With the way things are starting to go in this country, if forced to
choose between being caught with a van full of pirated DVDs or heroin
you'd actually have to pause and think about it." -- Michael Bell,
drunkenblog.com
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