(OT) - Major Blow to Copyleft Theory

[John Cowan]

David Woolley scripsit:

> My impression was that, at least in the UK and US, contracts required 
> either consideration, or, for the UK at least, being executed as a deed 
> (the latter being why the non-disclosure agreements I've signed tend to 
> have to be witnessed).

True, but consideration is a matter of form nowadays: contracts tend
to say "for the sum of 1 <currency-unit> and other good and valuable
consideration" just to silence that particular warning.

Questions of consideration, therefore, tend only to arise when contracts
are (a) implicit and (b) of an un-customary character.

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