[trial.misc.legal.software] Enforcability of a License

brnstnd@kramden.acf.nyu.edu (Dan Bernstein) (11/08/90)

In article <9011060500.AA01783@wubios.wustl.edu> david@WUBIOS.WUSTL.EDU (David J. Camp) writes:
> Except for
> the fact that the "Permissions and Restrictions for Copying" is
> called a "License", there is nothing in the law as I understand
> it that suggests that a contract exists.

The fact that it is called a license is enough to make it a license.
Sorry, but if you misuse legal terms in a legal document, you deserve
what you get. I also question your implication that Stallman actually
intended the GNU Public License to not be a license.

---Dan