EU situation should be looked at by everyone

Posted Dec 13, 2023 21:24 UTC (Wed) by farnz (subscriber, #17727)
In reply to: EU situation should be looked at by everyone by xtifr
Parent article: Bottomley: Solving the Looming Developer Liability Problem

But Debian aren't just offering me the software; they're also offering me their arrangement of that software into a compilation, which itself has a form of copyright applying to it. The licence I accept from Debian may well be implied, rather than explicit, but I need some form of permission to allow me to copy that arrangement.

In EU law, there's certain licences that are granted automatically as a matter of law, but they're still enough to function in terms of the offer, consideration, acceptance set required to form a contract - Debian, in this case, is offering me a licence (which it presumably has permission to do) that permits me to download the installer image.