A practical example of a click-wrap license

Forrest J Cavalier III forrest at mibsoftware.com
Mon Aug 5 11:30:38 UTC 2002


> > Should I care that some distributors, perhaps including Debian, refuse
> > to include KA on their distribution disk because they don't like
> > click-wrap licenses?
> 
> Well, we have objected in the past to licenses that require people to
> notify the author whenever they distribute a modified version, on
> basically practical grounds (people who distribute thousands of products
> can't send all those notifications).  This seems to me, if not quite
> on all fours with that decision, certainly related.
> 

...And what happens when the originator is gone (died or dissolved as
the case may be)?  Who is the first party in the click-wrap agreement
(which is still required by the license)?
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