Re: the GPL is a license not a contract ..

[Hyman Rosen]

Rjack wrote:
> For the past seventy years no federal court has ever ruled a
> copyright license to be anything other than a contract.

And we see from this case
<http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/packet/200703/court-upholds-copyright-infringement-and-unauthorized-access-claims-wh>
that even when there indisputably is a contract, violation of the
contract justifies claims of copyright infringement.