Re: Open source licenses are /actually/ contracts?!?

[Alexander Terekhov]

(headers fixed)

Tim Tyler wrote:
[...]
> If they were contracts, you would have to sign them ...

You're misinformed, that is just one of many forms to manifest assent. 
Assent may be manifested by written or spoken words, or by conduct. See 
also

http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:13269
(Re: conducting a sane and efficient GPLv3, LGPLv3 Review)

> 
> As the analysts seem to be saying, this is just a legal screw-up
> by the judge of a district court:
> 
> 
http://lawandlifesiliconvalley.blogspot.com/2007/08/new-open-source-legal-decision-jacobsen.html

http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3:mss:13638
((OT) - Major Blow to Copyleft Theory)

regards,
alexander.

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