From owner-freebsd-chat Wed Feb 27 16: 9:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mired.org (dsl-64-192-6-133.telocity.com [64.192.6.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 43B5737B405 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 16:09:40 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 73053 invoked by uid 100); 28 Feb 2002 00:09:30 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <15485.30010.11477.928616@guru.mired.org> Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 18:09:30 -0600 To: Rich Morin Cc: freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: First test of GPL in court In-Reply-To: References: <20020227122820.A64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227142005.A16555@energyhq.homeip.net> <20020227132417.B64839@dogma.freebsd-uk.eu.org> <20020227052928.L12253@rain.macguire.net> <3C7D1454.6957B09E@mindspring.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.90 under 21.1 (patch 14) "Cuyahoga Valley" XEmacs Lucid X-face: "5Mnwy%?j>IIV\)A=):rjWL~NB2aH[}Yq8Z=u~vJ`"(,&SiLvbbz2W`;h9L,Yg`+vb1>RG% *h+%X^n0EZd>TM8_IB;a8F?(Fb"lw'IgCoyM.[Lg#r\ From: "Mike Meyer" X-Delivery-Agent: TMDA/0.46 (Python 2.2; freebsd-4.5-STABLE-i386) Sender: owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Rich Morin types: > At 9:16 AM -0800 2/27/02, Terry Lambert wrote: > >Benjamin Krueger wrote: > >> I wish I could just forfeit any contracts I didn't want to deal with > >> anymore... I might be richer for it. ;) > >A contract is only valid if there is consideration exchanged. > Beeeeeeeeeeep! The GPL does not rest on contract law. Rather, it > is based on Copyright and the unilateral ability of the copyright > holder to control what is done with the copyrighted material. So should we root for the GPL to be found void as a contract, meaning that users don't have to abide by it? After all, that would provide a precedent for making all software licenses invalid as contracts. I wonder which side of this one MicroSoft would take. It would wound UCITA, possibly mortally. http://www.mired.org/home/mwm/ Independent WWW/Perforce/FreeBSD/Unix consultant, email for more information. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message