Re:Stockfish vs. ChessBase for GPLv3 violation: court hearin...
by londons_explore on Thursday June 23, 2022 @09:57PM
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I 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.
Re:Stockfish vs. ChessBase for GPLv3 violation: court hearin...
by dragonwriter on Thursday June 23, 2022 @10:03PM
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> 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.
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?