Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261196AbVDMG3J (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:29:09 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262209AbVDMG3J (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:29:09 -0400 Received: from mxout3.cac.washington.edu ([140.142.32.166]:2210 "EHLO mxout3.cac.washington.edu") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261196AbVDMG3E convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Wed, 13 Apr 2005 02:29:04 -0400 From: Sean Kellogg To: debian-legal@lists.debian.org Subject: Re: non-free firmware in kernel modules, aggregation and unclear copyright notice. Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2005 23:28:59 -0700 User-Agent: KMail/1.7.2 Cc: Raul Miller , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050413014658.G24721@links.magenta.com> In-Reply-To: <20050413014658.G24721@links.magenta.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200504122329.00128.skellogg@u.washington.edu> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1644 Lines: 38 On Tuesday 12 April 2005 10:46 pm, Raul Miller wrote: > In essence, you're claiming that the difference between Davidson > & Associates v. Internet Gateway Inc (2004) and other cases such as > Softman v. Adobe (2001) and Novell, Inc. v. CPU Distrib., Inc. (2000) > is that the presence of a click-through is the determining factor. > Of course, it could just as easily be something else (for example, > admitting in court agreement with the license). Failure to have a click-through license means that there is no acceptance, which is a fundamental part of contract law. No acceptance, no contract, no exceptions. So yes, the difference in many of the click through license cases is whether the contract was something you couldn't avoid accepting. There is talk these days among tech contract drafters to develop a more universal method for electronic acceptance... probably something that will be written into the Uniform Commercial Code in the next few decades (behold, the speed of legal evolution!). -Sean -- Sean Kellogg 2nd Year - University of Washington School of Law GPSS Senator - Student Bar Association Editor-at-Large - National ACS Blog [http://www.acsblog.org] c: 206.498.8207 ? ?e: skellogg@u.washington.edu w: http://probonogeek.blogspot.com So, let go ?...Jump in ? ...Oh well, what you waiting for? ? ?...it's all right ? ? ...'Cause there's beauty in the breakdown - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/