Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: NF Stevens
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 00:00

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Jason Clifford <jason@ukpost.com> wrote:

[snip]

>Only in Scotland does UK law recognise a shrink wrapped license as being
>valid that theirs is the only legislation that recognises 3rd party
>contracts in this way.
>
>In England and Wales you have the right to demand a refund on any software
>product regardless of what the shrink wrapped license says. The contract
>is not binding because the licensor could not possibly have known who the
>licensee would be and English/Welsh law requires that all parties to a
>contract know who each other are for it to be valid.

Ah. Someone else has been reading this month's PC plus! A very good
article it is too.

Norman

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From: norman@arcady.u-net.com (NF Stevens)
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/12
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