Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS wrote: > A lot of things would break if licences were arbitrarily revocable. I > haven't heard of it happening in practice, and I'm not sure the > "consideration" argument from contract law has any validity.
Give http://www.ilaw.com.au/public/licencearticle.html a read. It was posted before, so I'm sorry for the repeat notice, but it is well written and clear in its opinion that contracts are better than licenses because licenses, where no consideration has been given (such as not paying for the Free Software), are revokable or alterable.
