Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> >> Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: >> >> >> >> Qui, 2006-06-22 Ã s 01:26 +0200, Alexander Terekhov escreveu: >> >> > Many contracts don't require signing. Google "manifestation of assent". >> >> > One accepts the GPL contract by exercising exclusive right(s) granted >> >> > under it. >> >> >> >> But the GNU GPL is a Copyright *license* not a contract. >> > >> > Sez who? (Besides you and other brainwashed GNUtians, that is.) >> >> The GPL: >> >> 5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have >> not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to >> modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These >> actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License. >> Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work >> based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this >> License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying, >> distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it. >> > > To quote Hollaar (http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise2.html) > > http://groups.google.com/group/misc.legal.computing/msg/3cf3e9ee08d2837b
A quote which does nothing to establish the difference between license and contract. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
