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Re: Is the University of Edinburgh clickwrap GPL DFSG-free?



On Fri, 03 Nov 2006, Antti-Juhani Kaijanaho wrote:
> Is the following license, displayed as a precondition for
> downloading the software, DFSG-free? (Specifically, are there any
> traps in it that I am not seeing?)

Since (or assuming) it actually is GPLed, you can totally ignore the
clickwrap. Simply arrange[1] to have the code distributed to you
simply under the terms of the GPL. [If it's not possible to ignore the
clickwrap entirely, then it's not actually GPLed.]
 

Don Armstrong

1: By viewing the source, for example, and constructing a url which
bypasses the clickwrap entirely, or have someone else distribute the
source to you under the GPL.
-- 
Grimble left his mother in the food store and went to the launderette
and watched the clothes go round. It was a bit like colour television
only with less plot.
 -- Clement Freud _Grimble_

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