[License-discuss] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

John Cowan cowan at mercury.ccil.org
Thu Mar 12 00:52:43 UTC 2015


Pamela Chestek scripsit:

> Do you have an example where paying for a tangible article has been
> construed by a court as contractual acceptance of a restrictive term
> printed on it?

Isn't boxed software a tangible article?  If the box doesn't count, the
CD/DVD surely does.

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John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        cowan at ccil.org
How comes city and country to be filled with drones and rogues, our highways
with hackers, and all places with sloth and wickedness?
                --W. Blith, Eng. Improver Improved, 1652



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