Automatic GPL termination

Arnoud Engelfriet arnoud at engelfriet.net
Tue Sep 18 11:09:42 UTC 2007


dlw wrote:
> 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.

Speak for your own country, USAnian. In civil law Europe,
conditional licenses are contracts, period.

Arnoud

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