GPL Issue

[John Cowan]

dtemeles at nvalaw.com scripsit:

> I defy anyone to provide a US-based statutory reference or court case  
> that stands for the proposition that there is such a beast as a  
> "copyright license" that is not by definition a contract subject to  
> state law.  

Until the FSF, nobody wanted such a thing: copyright holders were concerned
to enforce their copyrights strongly against all but a few licensees, whom
they bound by contract in various ways (notably to pay money, of course).

-- 
Note that nobody these days would clamor for fundamental laws        John Cowan
of *the theory of kangaroos*, showing why pseudo-kangaroos are   cowan at ccil.org
physically, logically, metaphysically impossible.    http://www.ccil.org/~cowan
Kangaroos are wonderful, but not *that* wonderful.     --Dan Dennett on zombies