Oz WB PCBs - now available - Or how I screwed the list

[Brian L Massey]

On Thu, 25 Oct 2001 16:36:04 +0800 (WST) Bernd Felsche
<bernie at innovative.iinet.net.au> writes:

> GPL doesn't demand that derivative works be covered by GPL. Only
> that the end user be given access to, or directed to the original
> GPL's content.

A so-what. Already been stated numerous times that the diyWB EULA isn't
modeled after the GPL. The key point is, even the GPL has
restrictions/requirements that you have to agree to, or you don't have
authorization to make use of the thing. As to your retort that you don't
think the diyWB agreement is 'reasonable', where do you see even in the
GPL that if you think *its* provisions are unreasonable, you can simple
ignore them??

> Only as far as is _reasonable.

Not really. If you consider a particular license agreement as
unreasonable, feel free to opt out. That's your available choice, not
blowing off the agreement because you feel it's not 'reasonable'. If you
can't abide by the terms of an agreement, then you are simply stating you
can't be a part of the exchange.

You and Peter or whomever, have every right and opportunity to label a
particular agreement as either 'unreasonable' or 'onerous', and argue for
its modification, but that does *not* give you the right to take the
goods and blow off its conditions.

Let me apply the 'shoplifting' analogy for you high-brow types again. If
you go into a store and see something you like, but consider it
overpriced, that doesn't give you any justification to poach it. You can
try to negotiate a better price (conditions of the agreement more to your
liking), or whine at the top of your lungs that the requirements imposed
are not 'reasonable', but your *one* choice is to pass on by the goods.

Otherwise, you're a crook. Period.

Brian
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