On Wed, 03 Sep 2003, Rick Moen wrote:
> Quoting Don Armstrong (don@donarmstrong.com):
> You claimed that this "followed directly from contract law", to which
> I replied:
>
> The falsity of that statement can be seen at a brief glance from
> the fact that "a license granting unlimited unrevokable rights to
> the public to use, modify, copy, etc." would be founded in
> copyright law, rather than copyright law, without even considering
> the merits of the "public domain dedications".
The forms of the license are formed and founded in Contract Law.
Contract Law is what enables you to make such a legaly binding
agreement. Licenses obey the forms of either a contract or a lease or
they are not legally valid. [At least, I have yet to year a good
argument for why they would be valid.]
The specific rights that can be restricted may be curtailed by
Copyright Law, Constitutional Law, and/or a myriad of other sections
of US Law.
Hopefully that's clear now.
> > You are absolutely correct, though, in pointing out that Copyright Law
^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > plays a part in the rights that are granted to the public without a
> > License....
>
> The other gentleman did not say that. Moreover, it is quite clear that
> contract law need not be involved in "the rights that are granted to the
^^^^^^^^^^^^
> public without a license".
Correct.
Don Armstrong
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