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Consideration

Posted Mar 29, 2013 11:02 UTC (Fri) by SEMW (guest, #52697)
In reply to: Consideration by nix
Parent article: When does the FSF own your code?

Not all legal systems need consideration for a contract. It's possible it's only common law countries (US, England, Canada, India etc.) that need it, I'm not sure (I'm not familiar with any civil law systems). If so would that be consistent with your experience?


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Consideration

Posted Mar 29, 2013 15:40 UTC (Fri) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Well, I'm in the UK, and got the 'consideration' note in my assignments, but nothing actually accompanied it. I thought that was fishy at the time, but what the hell I have a patch to submit. :)

Consideration

Posted Mar 30, 2013 17:15 UTC (Sat) by rleigh (subscriber, #14622) [Link]

I got a GNU sticker with the reply for each of my assignments, which I assumed was the "consideration".

Consideration

Posted Mar 31, 2013 19:15 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Oh. I might have got a sticker or something, but if so it was so 'valuable' that I entirely forgot about it :)

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