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Date:      27 Feb 2002 13:25:06 -0800
From:      swear@blarg.net (Gary W. Swearingen)
To:        Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com>
Cc:        Benjamin Krueger <benjamin@macguire.net>, j mckitrick <jcm@FreeBSD-uk.eu.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: First test of GPL in court
Message-ID:  <eabseaty6l.sea@localhost.localdomain>
In-Reply-To: <3C7D1454.6957B09E@mindspring.com>
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>

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Terry Lambert <tlambert2@mindspring.com> writes:

> A contract is only valid if there is consideration exchanged.

I've read it both ways.  From http://www.duhaime.org/dict-c.htm
(the site supposedly belongs to a lawyer)

    Consideration is not required in contracts made in civil law systems
    and many common law states have adopted laws which remove
    consideration as a prerequisite of a valid contract.

Others have said that judges consider the most inconsiderable things
to be consideration.

And there's always consideration involved whenever anyone bothers to
threaten suit over GPL infringement.  (See my previous msg in this
thread.)

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