In article <[email protected]>, Hyman Rosen <[email protected]> wrote:
> Tim Smith wrote: > > I wonder how many open source projects provide a written instrument > > signed by the copyright owner? > > The GPL <http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.html> says > All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of > copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated > conditions are met. > > A court would be presented with evidence that it is industry practice > to distribute under such licenses without signatures, and given the > statement of irrevocable grant, would find that the nonexclusive > license prevails. Industry practice overrides a statutory requirement for a signature? -- --Tim Smith _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
