On 12/24/07, Isaac Dupree
Stefan O'Rear wrote:
It's been done. http://www.cs.utah.edu/~hal/HAllInOne/index.html
Stefan
which alas seems to have a ridiculous, probably unenforcable license :-) Interesting though - I wonder how correct it is.
[wildly off-topic, but...] It's not entirely clear, but this license doesn't seem any less enforceable than any other clickwrap license. I think the usual arguments for why the GPL is enforceable (see, for example, http://www.open-bar.org/docs/GPL-enforceability.pdf) apply to this license too, silly as it may be. Also see the caselaw on clickwrap licenses, summarized at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clickwrap#Legal_consequences_in_the_United_Stat... (yeah, Wikipedia, but at least it's well-cited). Modulo the copyright-vs.-contract debate, there's nothing in the Big-Kazooba-Ritual license that seems to violate the usual principles for a unilateral form contract, probably because no lawyer would ever think up something that perverse :-) Cheers, Tim -- Tim Chevalier * http://cs.pdx.edu/~tjc * Often in error, never in doubt "After three days without programming, life becomes meaningless." -- James Geoffrey