From: Russ Allbery <rra@stanford.edu>
To: gcc@gcc.gnu.org
Subject: Re: Proposal
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2001 12:34:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <yl8zf964hg.fsf@windlord.stanford.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <89CBjQm1w-B@khms.westfalen.de>
Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> writes:
> rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) wrote:
>> The hangup in this case is likely to be the click-through license on
>> that PDF file, which has some highly obnoxious clauses in it even above
>> and beyond not allowing redistribution.
> From the last discussion about said license, it essentially said "we
> won't be sued for that standard, no matter what you use it for", in
> lawyerese. I thought that was entirely reasonable.
It also says that if someone sues them, you pay their legal fees. That's
the bit that's rather iffier.
I should clarify that I didn't consider it a sufficient drawback to avoid
buying it personally, but I can understand how other people would be leery
of it.
--
Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu) < http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ >
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-09-20 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 46+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-09-15 11:45 Proposal Frank Klemm
2001-09-15 12:15 ` Proposal Gerald Pfeifer
2001-09-17 16:00 ` Proposal Neil Booth
2001-09-18 2:30 ` Proposal Joseph S. Myers
2001-09-18 10:21 ` Proposal Zack Weinberg
2001-09-18 11:14 ` Proposal Joseph S. Myers
2001-09-18 22:20 ` Proposal Zack Weinberg
2001-09-19 1:14 ` Proposal Joseph S. Myers
2001-09-18 12:23 ` Proposal Frank Klemm
2001-09-18 22:37 ` Proposal Zack Weinberg
2001-09-19 0:02 ` Proposal Neil Booth
2001-09-19 2:23 ` Proposal Tim Hollebeek
2001-09-19 2:41 ` Proposal Richard Earnshaw
2001-09-19 13:38 ` Proposal Joe Buck
2001-09-18 15:35 ` Proposal Robert Lipe
2001-09-18 16:59 ` Proposal Russ Allbery
2001-09-20 11:17 ` Proposal Kai Henningsen
2001-09-20 12:34 ` Russ Allbery [this message]
2001-09-18 9:48 ` Proposal Frank Klemm
2001-09-18 11:06 ` Proposal Neil Booth
2001-09-18 11:37 ` Proposal Kevin Handy
2001-09-18 15:48 ` Proposal Neil Booth
2001-09-18 15:55 ` Proposal Toon Moene
2001-09-27 5:39 ` Proposal Alexandre Oliva
2001-09-27 7:09 ` Proposal Frank Klemm
2001-09-27 16:22 ` Proposal Zack Weinberg
2001-09-29 15:45 ` Proposal Frank Klemm
2001-09-30 9:35 ` Proposal Zack Weinberg
2001-09-27 16:36 ` Proposal Neil Booth
2001-09-29 15:45 ` Proposal Frank Klemm
2001-09-29 17:22 ` Proposal Daniel Jacobowitz
2001-09-29 18:32 ` OT: Proposal Michael Matz
2001-10-03 3:52 ` Proposal Fergus Henderson
2001-09-17 8:55 Proposal Thomas R. Truscott
2001-09-18 9:32 Proposal dewar
2001-09-18 12:30 Proposal dewar
2001-09-18 23:01 ` Proposal Zack Weinberg
2001-09-19 0:06 Proposal dewar
2001-09-19 2:34 Proposal dewar
2001-09-19 2:44 Proposal dewar
2012-09-03 15:16 Proposal Afeez Basit
2012-09-03 18:35 Proposal Afeez Basit
2013-06-26 17:41 Proposal Barrister David Lopez Esq
2013-06-26 18:15 ` Proposal Paolo Carlini
2013-06-26 18:40 ` Proposal Daniel Santos
2013-06-26 17:47 Proposal Barrister David Lopez Esq
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