FireFox 3 EULA

[Mike McCarty]

Steve Hill wrote:
> On Wed, 17 Sep 2008, Joel Rees wrote:
> 
>> That would be, I'm assuming, that you have bought the product and have 
>> some sort of license thereby to use it?
> 
> If you have acquired a product (e.g. bought it from a shop, downloaded 
> it, etc) then you do not need a licence to use it.  I don't have to 
> agree to a licence in order to eat the loaf of bread I bought, nor do I 
> have to agree to a licence to use the software I bought.

"Acquiring" and "acquiring via approved means" are not the same.
Software can be GPL, but also have a use license. The GPL forces
the distributor to supply source to whoever is allowed to possess
a copy. It does not force the distributor to allow people to
acquire copies free of charge.

Mike
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