On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, Gilad Ben-Yossef wrote: > On Sunday 26 October 2003 23:38, Shachar Shemesh wrote: > > > The GPL, by design, is not a contract. As such, you must bring > > yourself under its influence by wishing to distribute copyrighted > > work for which the GPL was declared as a license. > > I'm not lawyer and I might be dead wrong here, but for the best of my > knowledge, the GPL is a contract by all accounts. This specific > contract states that if you abide by the terms specified in it then, > and only then, you are given a license by the copyright which is a > party to the contract to distribute the copyrighted work in question. > > The one thing which is special about this this contract is the fact that > for a contract to be in force, one must prove among other things that > the parties accept it's terms, hence contracts are usually signed so as > to establish that both parties accept the terms. With the GPL, however > , this is not needed because only by accepting the terms of the > contract and agreeing to be bound by it you can get the license to > distribute the copyright work in question. The act of distributing the > work implictly denotes acceptance of the terms of the GPL contract.
That's right. If you happen not to accept the license, you should follow the local copyright laws. > Again: I am not lawyer and I might be dead wrong, but this is what I > think I know about this stuff. > Gilad. behdad, ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
