Re: List other downloads on winehq

"Ivan Leo Murray-Smith" <[email protected]> Tue, 20 Apr 2004 18:22:15 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.emulators.wine.license
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> 
> Yes, I "accept" the TOS by clicking yes or whatever.
> 
> But in Sweden that yes click is not a valid agreement with any juridical 
> counterpart and
> whatever it says can be ignored.
> 
> The reasoning is you can't agree to anything with a computer as a 
> counterpart.
> 
> If it's not an oral agreement, and it's not a written and signed (with a 
> pen and ink) agreement,
> then it's no agreement.
So you have no legal permission to download the software, so you're copying it
illegally. When you download something, it's as if you copied some text out of a
book without the permission of the author, if you don't have a written
permission to do so, you're downloading illegally.