[SWLUG] SSH tunelling

[Dave Cridland]

On Fri May 13 15:02:36 2011, Lisi wrote:
> On Friday 13 May 2011 10:08:27 Steve Hill wrote:
> > In any case, would a court of law really find that someone has  
> implicitly
> > agreed to some T&Cs that they almost certainly haven't read  
> because they
> > are hidden away on a tiny link at the bottom of a page?
> 
> 
Yes, of course. If you don't know the license to copyrighted  
material, you shouldn't be copying it.


> Sadly, yes.  If you don't read soemthing that you "ought" to have  
> read, or
> don't know something that the law expects you to know, then you can  
> be sued
> in many cases.  Ignorance of the law/conditions is no defence in  
> these cases.
> 
> Mind you, enforcing this outside England and Wales could be tricky,  
> tho' there
> is probably something agreed with Scotland and Northern Ireland.

The GPL, and most open source software licenses, are protected by  
exactly the same laws, and they work just fine across jurisdictions  
thanks to various international conventions.

Dave.
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