Don Armstrong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Licenses are primarily founded upon Contract Law, not Copyright Law. > Copyright Law is what grants you the rights to a work which you then > exchange or give away using a License or Contract. Contract Law is what > allows you to establish a legally binding document to exchange or give > away those rights or interests.
Doesn't a contract require renumeration? I don't see how a public domain grant could be considered a contract, because the person giving away their software isn't (by definition) getting anything in return. -- Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
