Automatic GPL termination

dlw danw6144 at insightbb.com
Tue Sep 18 00:49:33 UTC 2007


"A GPL contract whose content is not public. . ."

Groooooan !!!!!!!!!

The whole World knows that the GPL is a *license* not a *contract*. Some 
of the most respected copyright experts
in the open source world have repeatedly affirmed this fundamental legal 
principle.

"Licenses are not contracts: the work's user is obliged to remain within 
the bounds of the license not because she voluntarily promised, but 
because she doesn't have any right to act at all except as the license 
permits."
Eben Moglen ---- Free Software Matters: Enforcing the GPL,
http://emoglen.law.columbia.edu/publications/lu-12.html

"The GPL is a License, Not a Contract, Which is Why the Sky Isn't Falling"
PJ ---- Groklaw
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20031214210634851
 




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