21 Feb
2006
21 Feb
'06
5:20 p.m.
Rob wrote:
On Tue February 21 2006 15:08, Peter Bessman wrote:
Is it some sort of secret the syntrillian had a contract which you had
to agree to in order for them to authorize your use of their software?
That's the only way your position is defensible. What you did was
contributory infringement, barring the applicability of the above
(which, obviously, I doubt).
-Pete
The fact that it's illegal to sell your vote
does not prove
that contracts can be morally wrong.
Not that the 'shrink-wrap licenses' to which Fons was referring
are even accepted as contracts in many venues. I certainly
never had a contract with, say, Syntrillian in the bad old days
when I would download a pirated copy of Cool Edit Pro; the text
of whatever EULA they used was never even included with the
illicit version. The GPL itself is also not a contract; it's a
license without which you can't distribute the program except by
violating copyright.