Automatic GPL termination

Hasit Ruparel hasit at win2konline.net
Tue Sep 18 04:45:40 UTC 2007


please remove me

On 9/18/07, dlw <danw6144 at insightbb.com> wrote:
>
> "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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