[markild]

That sounds like semantics.

Couldn't you say the same for any service where you _actually_ distribute it as well? "I'm not distributing it, I'm simple charging for the service of easy installation".

(I'm also not AL, though...)

[jiggy2011]

Software licenses are almost entirely about semantics. :) I think the difference would be between saying "I will give you this DVD containing a copy of firefox but you must agree to my $16 installation charge" vs saying "for $16 I will on your behalf obtain firefox from the mozilla foundation and perform the service of installing on your computer".

[peterpostle]

I've never understood the complaint that something is "just semantics", or "you're arguing semantics".

If someone can't argue based on the meaning of the words in a piece of text, what else can they argue about? The grammar? The spelling? Surely we _only_ want arguments based on semantics!

[MatthewWilkes]

The meaning of the sentence as a whole. "Just semantics" is used when you hinge your argument on the subtleties of meaning of one word.

[iopq]

Lexis and code generation, I guess