Rjack wrote:
Professor Micheal Davis of Clevland State University Law School: A unilateral grant of permission is a contract; we even have a
> legal term for such a situation and it is, unsurprisingly, called > a unilateral contract.
Wikipedia says <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unilateral_contract#Bilateral_v._unilateral_contracts> In a unilateral contract, only one party to the contract makes a promise. ... An offer of a unilateral contract may often be made to many people (or 'to the world') by means of an advertisement. In that situation, acceptance will only occur on satisfaction of the condition. ... In unilateral contracts, the requirement that acceptance be communicated to the offeror is waived. The offeree accepts by performing the condition, and the offeree's performance is also treated as the price, or consideration, for the offeror's promise. Which all sounds just like the GPL. We call the GPL a license to emphasize its unilateral nature. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
