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Harald van Dijk wrote: |
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> On Fri, Jul 06, 2007 at 08:08:13PM +0200, Torsten Rehn wrote: |
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>> On Friday 06 July 2007 19:56, Harald van Dijk wrote: |
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>>> And what if they decide they don't accept the license on the first run? |
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>>> They'll already have installed the software, which requires acceptance |
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>>> of the license. |
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>> No violation here: "[...] IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS |
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>> AGREEMENT, PROMPTLY UNINSTALL AND DELETE THE SOFTWARE [...]" |
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> That only means uninstalling and deleting the software means you won't |
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> be in further violation of the license, I believe, but I would not be |
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> entirely surprised if your interpretation turns out correct. |
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Considering that it is of questionable legality to require the |
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acceptance of a license to move files from one place to another on your |
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computer, I'd think that having only one acceptance instead of two would |
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be appropriate. |
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My understanding is that you only need a license to do something that |
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you're otherwise not allowed to do - such as distribute a copyrighted |
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file. Once you've downloaded the file you've already copied it - now |
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you're just moving it from directory A to B. |
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But in any case the authors already have a prompt in their software - I |
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don't think it is necessary to make the build interactive to nag people |
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again... :) |
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