Fedora Desktop future- RedHat moves

[Matthew Saltzman]

On Tue, 2008-04-29 at 10:36 +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
> > The license specifically states that you don't have to accept it to 
> > receive the rights it confers.
> 
> I would read that paragraph again if I was you
> 
> "However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or
> distribute the Program or its derivative works.  These actions are
> prohibited by law if you do not accept this License"

But you don't in fact have to take any action to acknowledge that you
accept the terms (as you do with most, if not all, proprietary
licenses).  You simply have to act in accordance with them.  In
particular, you can make any use of the code that you like--including
compiling it, running it, modifying it, linking it with proprietary
libraries, etc.--all with no obligation on your part to the author or
the distributor you received it from.  You just can't redistribute the
results if they are not in compliance.  And if they are in compliance,
you can go ahead and distribute them, and you still owe no obligation to
the author or distributor.

> 
> 
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                Matthew Saltzman

Clemson University Math Sciences
mjs AT clemson DOT edu
http://www.math.clemson.edu/~mjs