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Article #75843Re: Free Software Users == dupes ?
From: Piercarlo Grandi
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 1990 20:59
Date: Wed, 25 Apr 1990 20:59
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In article <970016@gore.com> jacob@gore.com (Jacob Gore) writes: [ the GPL requires the copyright holder of any work that includes GPL work to grant the right to copy the whole work which terms equivalent to the GPL's ] [ Somebody objects that this is not a valid contract because such contract does not include consideration ] The granting of rights to copy can be the effect of a contract, but the granting of rights does not necessarily require a contract. In particular the GPL itself is not a contract, as far as I can understand the issue. -- Piercarlo "Peter" Grandi | ARPA: pcg%cs.aber.ac.uk@nsfnet-relay.ac.uk Dept of CS, UCW Aberystwyth | UUCP: ...!mcsun!ukc!aber-cs!pcg Penglais, Aberystwyth SY23 3BZ, UK | INET: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1025b4,1a1f932bc12166f3 X-Google-Attributes: gid1025b4,public X-Google-ArrivalTime: 1990-04-25 13:59:38 PST Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!gmdzi!unido!mcsun!ukc!dcl-cs!aber-cs!rupert!pcg From: pcg@cs.aber.ac.uk (Piercarlo Grandi) Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss Subject: Re: Free Software Users == dupes ? Message-ID: <PCG.90Apr25205938@rupert.cs.aber.ac.uk> Date: 25 Apr 90 20:59:38 GMT References: <2852@rex.cs.tulane.edu> <970016@gore.com> Sender: pcg@aber-cs.UUCP Organization: Coleg Prifysgol Cymru Lines: 17 Posted: Wed Apr 25 21:59:38 1990 In-reply-to: jacob@gore.com's message of 24 Apr 90 00:04:59 GMT Posting-Front-End: GNU Emacs 18.55.4 of Thu Nov 23 1989 on athene (berkeley-unix)