On Sunday 21 March 2010 21.11:56 Lew wrote: > In at least some jurisdictions, if one party to a contract writes the > language without input or emendation from the other party, that allows > the other party to impose any reasonable interpretation on the wording. > IOW, ambiguity is resolved in favor of the party who had no choice in > the wording. > > That would mean the licensee gets to determine what "without fee" means, > not the licensor.
A (copyright) license and a contract are two entirely different things. By using PostgreSQL you do not enter a contract with the authors (or any other copyright holder) but you make use of a license that grants you certain permissions. The essential difference to a contract is that if the license terms are not to your liking, you can always quit using it. With a contract (especially those where one party alone wrote it - basically most contracts a private person will ever have with a company such as a bank, telco, insurance company, ....) you are usually bound and can't quit without compensation, which is why the law protects the "weaker" party that much. cheers -- vbi -- Cum tacent, clamant. When they are silent, they shout. -Cicero
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