Redistribution vs user

[bruce at perens.com]

From: John Cowan <cowan at locke.ccil.org>
> Close reading of the GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT, and Artistic licenses
> show them to consist of 1) a nonexclusive copyright license and 2)
> a disclaimer of warranty.  There is and can be no contract whatever,
> as the formal elements of a contract are not present, notably including
> consideration.

You've never heard of the tear-open license?
And how do you get the idea that there's no consideration?

Are you being deliberately obtuse?

	Bruce