On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 08:19:53PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: > On Tue, Dec 12, 2006 at 05:10:19PM -0800, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > > heh, lets see if I can start a good flame-fest here. > > > > I just installed xsane on one of my machines which was recently > > liberated :) and upon initial start-up... Its got a click through EULA > > style window talking about the GPL and no warranty etc. Wah?! It is my > > understanding that the GPL does no work in this context (and the GPL > > was only mentioned, not displayed). But the other stuff was very much > > like an EULA. unfortunately, I didn't think to take a screen shot and > > don't want to go through purgeing it at the moment... > > > > anyone else seen this? is this the future of free software? I must > > accept some parameters before i can use it? that's not free... > > > > A > > I'm not sure about xsane. However, I know that many applications do > this, unfortunately. It confuses users who are not savvy about license > issues. For instance, PDFCreator, OpenOffice and a number of other high > profile apps (Firefox as well, IIRC) all do this. You are right, > though, in that the GPL only applies to redistribution and not to use. > The GPL has zero to say about how/when/what/where an application is used > until it comes to redistribution. this is surely the first time I've seen it on a linux system, which doesn't really mean anything, I suppose. I might have seen it on free software on windows, but I consider that marketing ;) A
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