The GPL Is a License, not a Contract

The GPL Is a License, not a Contract

Posted Dec 4, 2003 12:40 UTC (Thu) by coriordan (guest, #7544)
In reply to: The GPL Is a License, not a Contract by dmantione
Parent article: The GPL Is a License, not a Contract

> It is my expectation that a judge would not accept that there is proof of
> an agreement that the one would publish his own source code under GPL

If I release my work under the GPL, the GPL is the *only* thing that gives you permission to redistribute my work. So if you redistribute, you are either obeying the GPL, or you are infringing my copyrights. So all I have to do is prove that you have not obeyed the GPL.

The Berne Convention makes copyright very similar in every country.

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