Re:Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China
by aptwebapps on Monday October 23, 2017 @01:27AM
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The process is verifying that is has an MIT license! Granted, it's a short process. That's easy to do with a software package. What's the equivalent of a COPYING file for this? Have they published a legally-binding document anywhere? Or would a lawyer say that Musk's public statements were enough?
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Re:Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China
by nitrogen on Monday October 23, 2017 @02:54AM
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I am not a lawyer, but something like this might apply: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estoppel#Promissory_estoppel
Re:Tesla Strikes Deal With Shanghai to Build Factory in China
by aptwebapps on Monday October 23, 2017 @04:32AM
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I'm very hesitant to play lawyer but the first sentence from the second paragraph of that section is, "A promise made without consideration is generally not enforceable."