Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Isaac wrote: > [...] >> ><URL:http://www.netfilter.org/news/2004-04-15-sitecom-gpl.html> >> ><URL:http://gpl-violations.org/news/20050414-fortinet-injunction.html> > > I hear that (plonked) GNUtian dak seems to be unaware the District Court > of Munich I judged that the GPL is a contract governed by the Sect. 158 > of the German Civil Act (BGB) http://dejure.org/gesetze/BGB/158.html.
§158 covers "Rechtsgeschäfte" in general, of which contracts ("Verträge") are only one special case. A licence by GPL is an "einseitiges Rechtsgeschäft" (something like "unilateral legal transaction"), not a contract. As such it is covered by the laws concerning "Willenserklärungen", not "Verträge". If you bothered actually reading the laws in context, this should not have escaped you. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss