Re: issues with the AGPL
On Sat, 2009-08-22 at 12:43 -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 22, 2009 at 02:31:38PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> > > All that is for USA, right? Do you know whether it works that way in
> > > other countries than USA, and probably UK, Canada and Australia too?
>
> > There is no such thing as a unilateral contract in Germany.
>
> There's no such thing as a unilateral contract anywhere else either. A
> license is not a contract.
There's an excellent discussion on the finer points of this distinction
(albeit under U.S. law) in Jacobsen v. Katzer, 535 F.3d 1373 (Fed. Cir.
2008). I have the opinion if anyone wants to read it (not sure how
accessible it is outside a legal research database subscription).
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