Patrik Stridvall wrote:
One fly in the legal ointment is that while the headers may not be copyrighable, the shrinkwrap license may still be legal
as a contract.
There's a case where a court suggested that someone who
buys a copy
of a product that contains a shrinkwrap license agreement
and unwraps
it is legally bound to follow it, while the person who
later finds the
unwrapped CD 'on the street' with no such license is
allowed to copy
the portions that are unprotected by copyright.
If that is so, wouldn't it mean that if you have a pirated
copy of the
headers you can legally copy and distribute parts that are
unprotected by copyright.
:-)
Oh, the irony of it all.
You don't need to use a pirated copy either just borrow a friends computer that has the headers legally installed and copy any part unprotected by copyright. Any "contract" can only bind him. :-)