Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?

[Tim Tyler]

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> Tim Tyler wrote:

[...]

> > > The [L]GPL (both 2 and 3) purports to impose a whole bunch
> > > of covenants ("conditions" but not "conditions precedent")
> > > upon licensees.
>>
> > No it doesn't.

[...]

> "Regardless of what server hosts the Corresponding Source, you remain 
> obligated to ensure that it is available for as long as needed to 
> satisfy these requirements."
>
> How on earth could this "condition" bind me to "remain obligated" if it
> isn't a covenant imposed on me?

It's not "imposed on you": you need not comply - if you do not
redistribute the software.  If you do this, it is of your own
free will.

You have no right to redistribute the software - with
or without the source code - under copyright law, unless
such freedom is granted by a license.
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