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Contracts

Posted Jul 3, 2008 23:17 UTC (Thu) by bcantrill (guest, #31087)
In reply to: Contracts by corbet
Parent article: More DTrace envy

Yes, the authors did intend it to be a license -- but the attorneys that I have spoken with on
this issue believe that the expansive views of the GPL require it to be interpreted as a
contract.  Again, some case law here would be quite helpful...

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