The GPL Is a License, not a Contract

The GPL Is a License, not a Contract - Russian law

Posted Dec 4, 2003 18:02 UTC (Thu) by Ross (subscriber, #4065)
In reply to: The GPL Is a License, not a Contract by sasha
Parent article: The GPL Is a License, not a Contract

First off I'm not a lawyer and I don't know anything about Russian law.
Having said that...

Actually the GPL was designed to work in many countries. I assume
Russia signed the Berne convention. If so, it should be enforcable
because copyrights are recognized without registration and cover
distribution and creation of derivative works.

So even if item 1 is a problem which makes the GPL invalid, 2 is not
a problem (from an enforcability standpoint) because people would have
no rights to distribute or create derivative works. And if they don't
do those things there isn't a compliance problem in the first place.

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