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. Again: I am not lawyer and I might be dead wrong, but this is what I think I know about this stuff. Gilad. -- Gilad Ben-Yossef <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://benyossef.com ================================================================= 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]
