Lawrence Rosen scripsit: > > Open source licenses grant things to whomever has the source code;.... > > Do you mean "grant things to whomever accepts the terms and conditions of > the license"?
Well, for some licenses. The BSD licenses don't appear to require any sort of acceptance: they just say "We grant you the rights to do X provided A and B are the case and C is not the case." That doesn't sound in contract as far as I can see: it's got the flavor of a bare license to trespass on land. [.sig below chosen at random!] -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan co...@ccil.org It is revolting to have no better reason for a rule of law than that so it was laid down in the time of Henry IV. It is still more revolting if the grounds upon which it was laid down have vanished long since, and the rule simply persists from blind imitation of the past. --Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr. _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list License-discuss@opensource.org http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
