🚀 go-pugleaf

Tom Tromey (tromey@klab.caltech.edu) wrote:
> >>>>> "Art" == Arthur Kreitman <artk@Congruent.COM> writes:
> 
> Art> Contracts are always subject to interpertation.  I've negotiated
> Art> lots of contracts and I've come to inumerable agreements with
> Art> companies my firm has entered into contracts with over the
> Art> interpertation of various terms and conditions.  My overall
> Art> impression was that the FSF considered the GPL more like holt
> Art> writ then a contract.  --
> 
> My understanding is that the GPL is a license, not a contract.  There
> is a difference, I think.

The GPL can be used as part of a contract.
Still, to have a problem with the FSF having the final say on what the
GPL means seems of dubious merit at best, especially since the GPL existed
long before the above contract came into being.

> Anyway, you still haven't provided any details of your dispute with
> the FSF.  I'd like to hear the details so I can judge for myself which
> party is out to lunch.

It needn't be the case that either party is out to lunch.
There's nothing wrong with a disagreement, per se.

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