Re: license issue: calling a GPLv2 library

[David Kastrup]

Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
>> 
>> Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:
>> 
>> > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
>> >>
>> >> Qui, 2006-06-22 Ã s 01:26 +0200, Alexander Terekhov escreveu:
>> >> > Many contracts don't require signing. Google "manifestation of assent".
>> >> > One accepts the GPL contract by exercising exclusive right(s) granted
>> >> > under it.
>> >>
>> >> But the GNU GPL is a Copyright *license* not a contract.
>> >
>> > Sez who? (Besides you and other brainwashed GNUtians, that is.)
>> 
>> The GPL:
>> 
>>       5. You are not required to accept this License, since you have
>>     not signed it.  However, nothing else grants you permission to
>>     modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works.  These
>>     actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License.
>>     Therefore, by modifying or distributing the Program (or any work
>>     based on the Program), you indicate your acceptance of this
>>     License to do so, and all its terms and conditions for copying,
>>     distributing or modifying the Program or works based on it.
>> 
>
> To quote Hollaar (http://digital-law-online.info/lpdi1.0/treatise2.html)
>
> http://groups.google.com/group/misc.legal.computing/msg/3cf3e9ee08d2837b

A quote which does nothing to establish the difference between license
and contract.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum