From owner-freebsd-chat Thu May 13 15: 9:19 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from shell.webmaster.com (mail.webmaster.com [209.133.28.73]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78E0914E6E for ; Thu, 13 May 1999 15:09:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from davids@webmaster.com) Received: from whenever ([209.133.29.2]) by shell.webmaster.com (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-12345L500S10000V35) with SMTP id com; Thu, 13 May 1999 15:09:08 -0700 From: "David Schwartz" To: , "Thomas David Rivers" Cc: Subject: RE: BSD, GPL, the world today. Date: Thu, 13 May 1999 15:09:08 -0700 Message-ID: <000101be9d8d$38c6e120$021d85d1@whenever.youwant.to> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook 8.5, Build 4.71.2377.0 In-Reply-To: <373B4B46.8DDE6A1E@softweyr.com> X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3155.0 Importance: Normal Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > > You "bought" the software, and agreed to the license terms > > when you opened the box, didn't you - Caveat Emptor. > > That's a pretty fine legal point that hasn't fully been settled yet, but > the court cases seem to be leaning towards throwing it out. The shrink > wrap license may finally! become a stupidity of the past within the > next few years. If so, that will be the end of the GPL/GLL, as they are the grandaddy of all shrink wrap agreements. DS To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message