Greg Harris <glhar...@panix.com> wrote: > Ben Finney <ben+deb...@benfinney.id.au> wrote: [...] > > Free-software licenses especially are (by definition) unilateral > > grants of permission, so I can't see how you lump them under contract. > > Um, no. Software licenses are one instance of a class of unilateral > contracts. Another instance is product warranties. Yet another class is > a store's advertised prices for goods. There are others.
This is an old chestnut and there are several points of view with no internationally-accepted conclusion as far as I can tell. Here's four of the previous subthreads at random:- http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2003/09/msg00084.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2005/05/msg00453.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/06/msg00275.html http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/12/msg00220.html Fortunately, I thought it doesn't really matter in this case because judges in copyright cases applied some rule of reasonableness (even if it sometimes seems incomprehensible), so I let it slide. Can we not examine the chestnut in detail right here, please? Thanks, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-legal-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
