Petr Baudis
On Tue, Jan 19, 2010 at 12:19:50PM +0100, Joerg Schilling wrote:
The problem is that the German law (and probably all European law systems as well) forbid you to sign a contract where you don't know the conditions at the time you sign.
But GPL is a licence, not a contract. Does this still apply? I wonder if the distinction is even meaningful in European law.
A license _is_ a contract. There does not exist anything special that makes a license different from a plain contract.
It would be great to read some article by a lawyer on this, it's an interesting aspect I've never thought of before.
You need to ask a European lawyer as US lawywers tend to ignore the principles of law in the non-british influenced part of the world. Jörg -- EMail:joerg@schily.isdn.cs.tu-berlin.de (home) Jörg Schilling D-13353 Berlin js@cs.tu-berlin.de (uni) joerg.schilling@fokus.fraunhofer.de (work) Blog: http://schily.blogspot.com/ URL: http://cdrecord.berlios.de/private/ ftp://ftp.berlios.de/pub/schily -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse-factory+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse-factory+help@opensuse.org