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ToS don't restrict your rights, either; they simply grant you the limited right to access the service/site/whatever. I don't really agree with this line of arg
by pmiller2 9y ago
ToS don't restrict your rights, either; they simply grant you the limited right to access the service/site/whatever.
I don't really agree with this line of argument, but if it's valid for the GPL, why not ToS?
- Spivak 9y agoMy interpretation would be that software licenses like the GPL can really only be violated by people and companies that have the capacity to understand them. Asking a layperson to sift though some sites ToS is a burdensome expectation.
- gpm 9y agoI have access to whatever site by virtue of the site responding to my requests. In the absence of the ToS I can do whatever I want and the ToS serve to restrict that. In the absence of the GPL I can do a strict subset of what I can do when the GPL is applied.
- lmm 9y agoI don't need to agree to any terms to be able to make web requests and receive responses. That's just a normal, legal thing to do on the internet. The GPL is valid because it grants you license to do something that would otherwise be illegal i.e. make copies of a copyrighted work.