Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2000 03:15:49 +0900 From: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> To: Peter Wemm <peter@netplex.com.au> Cc: Laurence Berland <stuyman@confusion.net>, Andrew Kenneth Milton <akm@mail.theinternet.com.au>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: My views on Eclipse/BSD Message-ID: <38A5A355.92BE74B5@newsguy.com> References: <20000212053047.0CC201CD7@overcee.netplex.com.au>
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Peter Wemm wrote: > > One key thing to keep in mind is that copyrights apply automatically > regardless of age, contracts etc. You have no right to copy a copyrighted > work unless the right to do so is given to you (or you have statutory > rights such as making backups etc). In this case, you don't have the right > to redistribute it except those granted by the license with it's > conditions. If you don't accept the license or cannot because you're under > the age of being able to enter into a contract or whatever, then you can't > redistribute it *period*. You can download it (they are distributing it, > not you), and do pretty much whatever you like with it once they've given > it to you, but you can't give it to anyone else. This means that if you > were under 18 etc, you probably could use it for commercial purposes if you > believed the license didn't apply. (And Lucent/whoever *do* own the > copyright on the additional Eclipse stuff). So... basically... you can't redistribute GPL code unless law permits you to enter contracts? How funny... :-) -- Daniel C. Sobral (8-DCS) dcs@newsguy.com dcs@freebsd.org "If you consider our help impolite, you should see the manager." To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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