On Mon, 31 Aug 2009 14:40:30 -0700, Darren New wrote:

> Jim Henderson wrote:
>> "You are not required to accept this License in order to receive or run
>> a copy of the Program."
> 
> In part because that's how copyright works. You can't really impose
> restrictions on someone via copyright, other than basically not copying.

Yep; that's why a lot of software companies moved to using a license 
agreement instead.  In some localities, though, they treat the license 
agreement as nothing more than copyright; I understand in Germany, a 
software company cannot impose restrictions on the use of software 
(including how you may or may not resell it or whether - IIRC - you can 
reverse-engineer it).

Jim

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