[WikiEN-l] [Wikitech-l] Re: Update to gfdl copyright notice needed

Mon Sep 8 00:38:08 UTC 2003

Alex R. wrote:

>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "Daniel Ehrenberg" <littledanehren at yahoo.com>
>
>>And are you implying that, if I press "I agree" on a
>>click-through license on software, then I don't have
>>to follow it?
>>
>The license is binding on children. If it wasn't then 
>children could not buy video games, videotapes,
>books, etc. no one would sell it to them. Children
>enter into contracts all the time.
>
That depends on where they are.  In BC law a child can only be held 
liable in a contract for necessities.  (Wkipediholics might have a hard 
time convincing the courts that Wikipedia is a necessity. :-) )  Those 
who sell video games, etc.to children do so at their own risk  The most 
likely kind of dispute is for not having paid for the game, and these 
end up too bad for the vendor.  If vendors had to rely on some kind of 
assurance that the child could properly agree to the licensing agreement 
the entire video game market would collapse.  Concerned parents would be 
loath to agree to these as a way of keeping the kids away from games. 
 If these children do not develop a video game "addiction" during 
childhood, they are much less likely to be customers when they grow up.

>We can certainly add text about minors to the Terms and
>Conditions (maybe it should be called Submission
>Standards, terms and conditions sounds too much like
>contract boilerplate that no one may ever read). 
>But getting permission from their parents? 
>
Oh, no!  More wrds! :-)

>What about marital property? Should a wife get her 
>husband's approval because he might later say that
>she is wasting valuable marital property by releasing
>it under the GFDL?
>
The nimber of possible variations is endless.

Ec