"No it doesn't. What you're calling licenses (what are often called "End User License Agreements") are not licenses – they are contracts."
They are contracts that grant a license as the primary consideration. Without the law against copying copyrighted works they would never stick or hold up in any court. A contract without consideration is void.
Your analysis is simply flawed.
"I know of no law that forbids the use of software without authorization. It is not an infringement of copyright law to run a program, period."
To Run a program you need to copy it into memory, which arguably requires a licence. Most of the time you must copy from the installation media or download from the net certain copyrighted files to install a program. Hence requiring a license.
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They are contracts that grant a license as the primary consideration. Without the law against copying copyrighted works they would never stick or hold up in any court. A contract without consideration is void.
Your analysis is simply flawed.
"I know of no law that forbids the use of software without authorization. It is not an infringement of copyright law to run a program, period."
To Run a program you need to copy it into memory, which arguably requires a licence. Most of the time you must copy from the installation media or download from the net certain copyrighted files to install a program. Hence requiring a license.