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Re: the GPL is a license not a contract ..
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Alan Mackenzie |
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Re: the GPL is a license not a contract .. |
Date: |
Wed, 11 Mar 2009 12:02:21 +0000 (UTC) |
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In gnu.misc.discuss Rjack <user@example.net> wrote:
> Alan Mackenzie wrote:
>> In gnu.misc.discuss Rjack <user@example.net> wrote:
>>> Doug Mentohl wrote:
>>>> Rjack wrote:
>>> For the past seventy years no federal court has ever ruled a
>>> copyright license to be anything other than a contract.
>> Who cares? One's got 7 letters, the other 8. It's the effect it
>> has which is important, not the name you give it.
> It matters greatly. Since license are contracts, interpretation
> under state common law applies as well as federal copyright law.
> Things like privity and 17 USC 301(a) apply. Without a choice of law
> provision a copyright license may be interpreted fifty different
> ways depending on which state jurisdiction is invoked.
All sounds rather parochial to me. There are a great deal more than
merely fifty different systems of law under which the GPL operates.
> Sincerely,
> Rjack :)
--
Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
Re: the GPL is a license not a contract .., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/03/11
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- Re: the GPL is a license not a contract .., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/03/11
- Re: the GPL is a license not a contract .., Alexander Terekhov, 2009/03/11
- Re: the GPL is a license not a contract .., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/03/11
- Re: the GPL is a license not a contract .., Alexander Terekhov, 2009/03/11
- Re: the GPL is a license not a contract .., Hyman Rosen, 2009/03/11
- Re: the GPL is a license not a contract .., Alexander Terekhov, 2009/03/11
Re: the GPL is a license not a contract .., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/03/11
Re: the GPL is a license not a contract .., Alexander Terekhov, 2009/03/11
Re: the GPL is a license not a contract .., Alan Mackenzie, 2009/03/11