From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) id LAA09286; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:40:07 +0100 (MET) X-Authentication-Warning: pauillac.inria.fr: majordomo set sender to owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr using -f Received: from nez-perce.inria.fr (nez-perce.inria.fr [192.93.2.78]) by pauillac.inria.fr (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA09376 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:40:06 +0100 (MET) X-SPAM-Warning: Sending machine is listed in blackholes.five-ten-sg.com Received: from athlon.baretta.com (host211-68.pool80116.interbusiness.it [80.116.68.211]) by nez-perce.inria.fr (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id h0NAe5v27596 for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:40:05 +0100 (MET) Received: from baretta.com (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by athlon.baretta.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 875AF273AB for ; Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:43:09 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <3E2FC73D.1030003@baretta.com> Date: Thu, 23 Jan 2003 11:43:09 +0100 From: Alessandro Baretta Organization: Baretta srl -- www.baretta.com User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.1) Gecko/20020826 X-Accept-Language: it, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ocaml Subject: Re: [Caml-list] Re: License wars References: <20030116103038.GA18198@swordfish> <022e01c2bd5b$1cb988b0$0a00a8c0@gateway> <15915.65485.636419.969429@lachesis.inria.fr> <20030120164653.GA6351@swordfish> <87ptqpunpk.fsf_-_@ketanu.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-caml-list@pauillac.inria.fr Precedence: bulk Michaël Grünewald wrote: > Matt Gushee writes: >>I believe very strongly in informed consent in all areas of life. That >>means, for example, that when someone accepts a software license, they >>should know what they just agreed to. And unfortunately, most software >>licenses never get read; they're just too damn long and complex. If >>you're an open source developer, you have probably read the GPL, but I'd >>wager most end users haven't. And you have undoubtedly also used >>Microsoft products. Have you ever read their EULA in its entirety? I bet >>you haven't. > > > Oh, these poor little users that want to use software without any > effort, that's so lovely ... > > Any computer user must have read and understood the licence (or, less > bad than nothing, a digest) of the software it uses. This is pointless > to care of the ones that do not. Even if they come from the whole > majority, faults must not be agreed but fighted against. Besides, whether one reads it or not, one is bound by it. If one uses software licenced under conditions one *would not* agree upon, had one read the licence, it is his or her problem, not the developer's. Alex ------------------- To unsubscribe, mail caml-list-request@inria.fr Archives: http://caml.inria.fr Bug reports: http://caml.inria.fr/bin/caml-bugs FAQ: http://caml.inria.fr/FAQ/ Beginner's list: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ocaml_beginners