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

[Tim Tyler]

Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> 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)

Right - but surely you get the point: a license doesn't
take away any freedoms of the recipient - therefore
the recipient does not need to assent to it - therefore there
is no need to prove that they did in any subsequent dispute.

Contracts are different - they are *agreements* between
the parties in question.

> > 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)

That's another article by you ;-)
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