Re: Re: Licensing problem in winstaller

On Thu, May 19, 2005 at 05:12:47PM +0100, Theodore Hong wrote:
> Matthew Toseland wrote:
> >Under UK law almost any time you copy a file is a copyright infringement
> >unless you have explicit permission or are covered by one of the
> >incredibly narrow exceptions. There is no real "fair use", in the
> >american sense. I might argue that in the UK it is necessary to accept
> >the GPL in order to use GPL'd software.
> 
> If so, that's interesting.  The GPL still seems insufficient, though, 
> since nothing in it actually gives you the right to use anything.

I don't see why you can't use it. The GPL lets you copy it all you like
- including copying it into RAM and onto the hard disk.
> 
> What is the difference in the user's rights between software that comes 
> with no usage license at all and software that comes with an EULA?  Does 
> it make a difference if you somehow run EULA'd software in such a way 
> that you never see the EULA?  (Ignore for the moment all the 
> reverse-engineering and by-opening-this-box stuff, suppose the program 
> came in a form where running the installer showed you the license but 
> you could run the program directly without using the installer at all.)

Such as if you were running it under WineX/Cedega before they
implemented the HTML control. :) I don't know really.
> 
> theo
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