----- Original Message ----- From: "Daniel Ehrenberg" littledanehren@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.
Keep in mind that, up to this SCO v. IBM lawsuit (a rare exception), no GNU license has ever been brought to court. And when it comes to the FDL, I think it is even less likely to be challenged since the competition for literature is not as fierce as in software.
Children also go to court to testify; of course a child might be so young that he or she does not understand what the truth means, but then there are many adults who don't understand what copyright licenses mean or what taking an oath in court means.
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?
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?
Alex756