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Re:Copyleft terms may become unenforceable in 11 countries d... by dragonwriter on Thursday June 14, 2018 @02:09PM (#17313890)
> This means reading the LICENSE.TXT that states "copyleft" and downloading from github is definitely not a "contract".

It's possibly a contract, but it is clearly not “commercially negotiated”, it's a contract (if at all) of adhesion.

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Re:Copyleft terms may become unenforceable in 11 countries d... by incompatible on Thursday June 14, 2018 @09:12PM (#17316739)
My understanding is that a license is not a contract, but simply permission from one party to do something. A license can be part of a contract e.g., when a license is provided in exchange for money. However, if I just plonk an open source license on a bit of software I wrote, there's no contract with anybody.

It's unlikely that invalidating an open source license would be of benefit to a user, since they then have no legal right to make copies of the software.

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