Re: Contracts and licenses
@ 28/06/2004 15:38 : wrote Brian Thomas Sniffen :
>A whole bunch of your argument was balanced on the claim that one
>had to accept the GPL in order to receive the licenses it offers,
>because it's a contract, and that it had to be a contract, because
>one had to accept it to receive certain benefits.
>
>I don't think either of those is true, and this is a good example
>of why I think that. Calling it a nitpick doesn't make it less of
>a counterexample to your claims.
>
Anyway, it depends on your jurisdiction. Here in Brasil, *every*
software license is a contract, and is ruled, aside from the
dispositions in Copyright Law (9.610/98) and Computer Programs Law
(9.609/98), to Contract Law and the Civil Code.
So, here, basically it's legally binding a license "contract" that
says you can only *use* the program or the data generated by it if
you are wearing yellow underpants (not really, but almost).
>And I'll continue to argue that a license granted only by contract
>is non-free. To the extent that applies to the MPL, it's certainly
>relevant.
>
IRT jurisdicions like ours where, every license is only granted by
contract, where do you stand?
--
br,M
Reply to: