Re: SFLC stipulated dismissal of Comtrend without any settlement

[Alexander Terekhov]

David Kastrup wrote:
> 
> Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
> 
> > Hyman Rosen wrote:
> > [...]
> >> According to this paper,
> >> <http://www.sapnakumar.org/EnfGPL.pdf>
> >> the GPL is not a contract.
> >
> > "Part IV proposes that the GPL is a failed contract, which lacks only
> > consideration. It advocates enforcing the license through state
> > promissory estoppel law and the Copyright Act."
> >
> > LOL. I propose Sapna Kumar is just crazy. The GPL is full of
> > consideration on both sides.
> >
> > Licensor's consideration is a promise not to sue for copyright
> > infringment.
> >
> > Licensee's consideration is all the enforcable obligations imposed by
> > the license.
> 
> You are confusing "consideration" with "contribution".  Look up the
> "consideration" in a law dictionary, it is legalese.

Uh moron dak.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consideration_under_American_law

"Consideration is the central concept in the common law of contracts and
is required, in most cases, for a contract to be enforceable.
Consideration is the price one pays for another's promise. It can take a
number of forms: money, property, a promise, the doing of an act, or
even refraining from doing an act. In broad terms, if one agrees to do
something he was not otherwise legally obligated to do, it may be said
that he has given consideration. "

regards,
alexander.
        
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originality standards required by copyright law."

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P.P.S. "Of course correlation implies causation! Without this 
fundamental principle, no science would ever make any progress."

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