From: John Cowan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Close reading of the GPL, LGPL, BSD, MIT, and Artistic licenses
> show them to consist of 1) a nonexclusive copyright license and 2)
> a disclaimer of warranty. There is and can be no contract whatever,
> as the formal elements of a contract are not present, notably including
> consideration.
You've never heard of the tear-open license?
And how do you get the idea that there's no consideration?
Are you being deliberately obtuse?
Bruce
