FireFox 3 EULA

Joel Rees joel.rees at gmail.com
Wed Sep 17 13:07:29 UTC 2008


On Sep 16, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Steve Hill wrote:

> On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Joel Rees wrote:
>
>> If you do not agree to the GPL, you have no license at all, and  
>> the only thing that allows you to use the software in any way is  
>> fair use. Fair use does not necessarily cover running the software.
>
> Certainly not the case the world over.  ISTR that UK copyright law  
> has an exemption that basically says it won't prevent you doing  
> whatever you need to do to use the product (e.g. installing the  
> software on a hard drive, copying a database into RAM, etc).

That would be, I'm assuming, that you have bought the product and  
have some sort of license thereby to use it?

Remember, in the case of GPL-ed software, we are not trafficking in  
software in the usual sense.

joelrees




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