Manifestation of Assent

[Lawrence E. Rosen]

> > > > The GPL folks think it is sufficient.  I don't agree, 
> but I'm not 
> > > > a judge nor am I your lawyer.  :-)
> >
> > I do not believe I have the right to make unauthorized copies or 
> > derivative works of GPL-licensed software.  Just in case 
> it's needed, 
> > the previous sentence is a manifestation of my assent.
> 
> I'm having trouble reconciling these two statements then. Am 
> I missing something?

As someone who knows about the GPL, I cannot claim that I don't know
what I'm doing when I accept a piece of GPL-licensed software.  I am
willing to assent to the GPL terms and conditions.  It doesn't matter to
me what legal theory the GPL lawyers want to use to enforce their
license.  
/Larry

--
license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3