Richard Watts wrote:
Suppose A gives me a piece of software, X, and agrees to licence it
to me under the GPL. The GPL allows me to do a number of things, but,
critically, section 3 requires me to distribute source code with my
binaries - that's a consideration. It's clearly valuable.
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000 17:09:35 -0500, John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
"Matthew C. Weigel" wrote:
Ummm... yes, you can accept or reject the GPL, if I understand it correctly.
You either accept the terms of the license -- the restrictions placed on
distribution, for instance -- or you don't,
According to Richard Watts:
Of course, the author also gets vicarious benefits from the
perceived greater reliability of the software he uses which is based
on the software he's written, even if none of it was actually
distributed to him [...]
I've got a better argument there (though, of
According to John Cowan:
Richard Watts wrote:
Suppose A gives me a piece of software, X, and agrees to licence it
to me under the GPL. The GPL allows me to do a number of things, but,
critically, section 3 requires me to distribute source code with my
binaries - that's a consideration.
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 13:51:06 -0800, Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
According to Richard Watts:
Of course, the author also gets vicarious benefits from the
perceived greater reliability of the software he uses which is based
on the software he's written, even if none of it was
On Fri, Mar 31, 2000 at 01:52:32PM -0800, Chip Salzenberg wrote:
Well, consider the possibility that we can get a court to agree that
the GPL is an enforceable contract if binaries are distributed. Isn't
that really the situation we are most concerned about?
Not only that, but I think it's
On Fri, 31 Mar 2000 16:03:08 -0800, Chip Salzenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:
According to W . Yip:
As for intangibles like promises and forbearance, it must be recognised as
having economic value before it can take on the status of consideration.
I see. Thank you for grounding my speculation.
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