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Some developers seem to engage in very wishful thinking about licensing. I remember seeing, ~15-20 years ago, "licenses" asserting not merely the right to globa
by 0xcde4c3db 8y ago
Some developers seem to engage in very wishful thinking about licensing. I remember seeing, ~15-20 years ago, "licenses" asserting not merely the right to globally revoke the license, but to change the terms retroactively, which is completely absurd.
- zeroname 8y ago"Absurdity" is not a legal term, to my knowledge. Don't assume that because a contract is absurd, exploitative or even satirical that it won't hold up in court.
- hnbroseph 8y agothere are a variety of reasons a contract can be unenforceable, including notions of being 'unconscionable' or 'unfair'.
- 0xcde4c3db 8y agoI use the term "absurd" not to make a legal argument, but to suggest that such an agreement is fundamentally devoid of any sensible meaning in the context of forming a contract. I'm no lawyer, but I suspect that the legal argument would boil down to the offer of a license being illusory [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_promise https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Illusory_promise