Re: Java, GPL and CDDL
Josselin Mouette wrote:
> Le vendredi 16 novembre 2007 ? 16:23 +0100, Joerg Schilling a ?crit :
> > If you talk to lawyers and ask them about the GPL, they will tell you that
> > the GPL is a contract offer that needs to be explicitely acepted by the
> > licensee.
>
> This is of course completely wrong. Unless you accept the terms of the
> GPL, the author's rights apply by default, so you don't have the right
> to use, distribute or modify the software.
Which doesn't change the fact that the GPL is a contract whose
terms must be accepted before the distributor of the software
can be held to them.
Arnoud
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