Public Domain Python

[Tres Seaver]

In article <39C4C724.CC6B8EF6 at seebelow.org>,
Grant Griffin  <g2 at seebelow.org> wrote:
>Pat McCann wrote:
>> 
>...
>> But there is always risk involved.  I've read of lawyers claiming that
>> the GPL is revocable by some theory that I never really understood, but
>> I think amounted to a version of the law that definitely exists in some
>> places (in the US once, I'd like to know where now) that there is no
>> binding contract unless the two parties have exchanged things of value.
>
>IANAL, but I suppose one could argue (after all, this is Usenet <wink>)
>that the GPL license _does_ exchange things of value--much more than
>"Wide Open"-style licenses.  The software user gets the GPL'ed software,
>of course, (which is "valuable" at least on Unix and its clones <wink>),
>and the software's copyright holder gets the presumably "valuable"
>promise of adherence to "copyleft", that is, that modifications and
>additions to the original GPL'ed software will themselves fall under the
>GPL.

I seem to recall that, under traditional contract law, the "future
promises" enumerated in a contract were not enforceable until
"consideration in hand" had been received by *both* parties to it;
lots of weird customs still prevalent in real estate go along with
this theory.

Tres.
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