[H-GEN] re: OpenSolaris

[Jason Parker-Burlingham]

On Sun, Feb 13, 2005 at 06:54:11PM +1000, Harry Phillips wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-13 at 15:10 +1000, Greg Black wrote:
> > Er, no.  As a user, you need to understand and comply with every
> > licence that covers all the software that you use.
> Really? It's open source, I use it, what else is there to know?

Your rights vis a vis any claims of patent infringement; your ability
and rights to redistribute the software verbatim or modified, in source
or binary form.  There are probably others.

I think the real point here is that if you are "just a user" who never
does anything more than download a binary package of the software, and
use it, you're behaving as though you received it under a proprietary
license.

In short, if you're just a user, there probably isn't anything else to
know, but you'll never know if you're complying with the license or not
unless you actually read it!

Cheers,
-- 
Jason Parker-Burlingham
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