[License-discuss] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

[Pamela Chestek]

But that's the acceptance by breaking the wrapper, not just by virtue of being printed. And the printed "for promotional use" on cds was held not an enforceable license.

Pam

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------ Original message------
From: John Cowan
Date: Wed, Mar 11, 2015 8:53 PM
To: license-discuss at opensource.org;
Subject:Re: [License-discuss] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

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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