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> you can't claim both copyright and a contract on something, That makes no sense to me. Licensing copyrighted work is pretty standard, and it must be in Franc
by jrochkind1 4y ago
> you can't claim both copyright and a contract on something,
That makes no sense to me. Licensing copyrighted work is pretty standard, and it must be in France too? The GPL is a license, which is indeed a contract. But surely people license (enter into a contract between copyright holder and user which grants certain allowed uses) copyrighted work in France routinely?
- londons_explore 4y agoI think the distinction is that if the parties involved don't have a contract between them, copyright law applies. But if there is a contract in place, then copyright law no longer applies, and you instead have to resolve any disputes as if they were violations of a contract. The difficulty being that the GPL allows anyone to enter into a contract without even consent of the other party, and the contract law courts may not see that as a valid contract.
- dragonwriter 4y ago> The difficulty being that the GPL allows anyone to enter into a contract without even consent of the other party No, it doesn't. Voluntarily, publicly offering the GPL as license terms is consenting to others accepting that offer.