Alexander Terekhov wrote:
On 1/17/06, olive <olive.lin@versateladsl.be> wrote: [...]In particular read section 4 of the GPL.It says "You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it." And I agree that you are not require to accept this License (noting that signing a license agreement is not the only way to accept a license agreement). But the rest of this sections is nothing but fraudulent misstatements of the copyright act (regarding rights of owners of computer program copies lawfully made) and the contract laws governing breach of contractual covenants.
It seems indeed that redistributing lawfally obtained copies of software is not prohibited by copyright law (as long as you do not copy the software yourself) but is restricted by the GPL (you have to give the source; this indeed contradict the rest of this section). However it seems clear to me that if you do not agree to the GPL, then the GPL definitively does not apply to you at least for the software in question. So in this case you cannot make copies (nor modifying) of the software anymore. I do not think you can agree to the GPL just for a limited number of copies of the software.
Olive