Josselin Mouette wrote: > Le vendredi 16 novembre 2007 ? 16:23 +0100, Joerg Schilling a ?crit : > > If you talk to lawyers and ask them about the GPL, they will tell you that > > the GPL is a contract offer that needs to be explicitely acepted by the > > licensee. > > This is of course completely wrong. Unless you accept the terms of the > GPL, the author's rights apply by default, so you don't have the right > to use, distribute or modify the software.
Which doesn't change the fact that the GPL is a contract whose terms must be accepted before the distributor of the software can be held to them. Arnoud -- Arnoud Engelfriet, Dutch & European patent attorney - Speaking only for myself Patents, copyright and IPR explained for techies: http://www.iusmentis.com/ Arnoud blogt nu ook: http://blog.iusmentis.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
