Still no new license -- but draft text available

[William Tanksley]

On Thu, 3 Aug 2000 16:16:40 -0600, Andrew Dalke wrote:
>Tim wrote:
>>The only clause CNRI and RMS are still debating is the "State of
>>Virginia" clause.

>And just a friendly reminder that Virgina is one of the few places
>where UCITA is the law (the other one is Maryland).  It's an ugly
>law.

Oh no.  That puts a very sinister meaning on that "click to accept"
gibberish.  That wasn't just knee-jerk imitation of Windows licenses; it
was an invocation of UCITA.

As much as I hate UCITA, I can't think of a problem there -- unless, of
course, CNRI only provided a Windows binary with a click-through license,
in which case extracting it by any means other than running that program
would be strictly illegal.

But I can't see them doing that -- it would be utterly pointless
nastiness.  And it would also be easily gotten around, since we have
versions to which the license cannot be applied.

> Andrew

-- 
-William "I am not a lawyer" Tanksley