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The GPL is not an EULA http://flameeyes.blog/2020/03/23/the-gpl-is-not-an-eula/ …pic.twitter.com/Sd5BJz8dGm
GPL section 0 is mentioning (unrestricted) usage. So, it is a bit an EULA.
It still does not require to agree for usage though, by design.
True. Therefore it can be considered as an EULA that you don't need to accept.
It's quite the stretch of the EULA term to consider it such — «An end-user license agreement (EULA) is a legal contract entered into between a software developer […] and the user of the software.» If you don't have to accept it, it's not a contract.
You can implicitly accept a contract by using a service. Cf Terms Of Services of all websites.
You cannot not have the license apply. So, it is a kind of obligation. GPL being an EULA that does not need to be accepted is a common interpretation, that is useful notably for App Stores. On the main topic, accepting the GPL is idiotic.
The GPL is a *copyright* license, which means it only matters when you distribute the software. But installing it/using it has nothing to do with distribution, hence having the GPL as a click-through in the installer is silly.
A copyright license should be agreed to before you provide copies.
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