Re: Consideration in a Shrinkwrap Contract

From: Bryan Taylor <bryan_w_taylor[_at_]yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 09:19:52 -0700 (PDT)

• "Peter D. Junger" <junger[_at_]samsara.law.cwru.edu> wrote:

> If I go into CompUSA and buy a modem, a book on Java, and a copy of
> RedHat 7.0 software, where is the license for any of those
> transactions?

Actually, RedHat 7.0 DOES have a licence (several in fact). It unilaterally grants you lots of things traditionally reserved by copyright. I suppose if RedHat had a clickwrap agreement, they would have a case for consideration. Of course, this would prevent them from shipping all the GPL software that makes RedHat nice.

Of course, if you like you can ignore RedHat's licence and do what copyright law allows you to (but why would you turn down such a nice gift).

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