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Thank you for the response, though I feel you don't address my |
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question. Happily though, I spoke with an acquaintance and it was |
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determined that the subservience to the license (i.e. agreeing to be |
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bound by the GPL2) could not be offered as consideration as its |
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restrictions were not the licensee's to offer at the time of |
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acceptance of the license. The licensee had no rights to offer as part |
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of the contract, as the contract had not yet given them any rights to |
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give up. The terms put forth by the GPL2 are only restrictions that |
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are part of the license. |
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Furthermore, as stated above, it should seem quite self referential - |
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I can't offer my acceptance of a license as consideration, because it |
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is what I am trying to accept. |
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As I am sure you are aware, under US law there is no contract if both |
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sides have not provided consideration. This leaves us in the strange |
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place of gratis licenses being suggestions. |
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Cheers, |
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R0b0t1 |
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On Fri, Dec 28, 2018 at 12:47 PM <vnsndalce@××××××××.net> wrote: |
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> Thank you for your insight. |
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> |
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> It is a shame that there were no responses. They ignored your post, then |
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> kept baying at me: "no this is wrong" "you're not a lawyer" "I will not |
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> lower myself to refute you with arguments!". |
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> As for non-monetary consideration to support an additional no-revocation |
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> term: |
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> Many of the old linux-kernel (programmer)rights-holders have received |
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> nothing, and have made no such promise. |
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> Many of the contributors (who did not transfer their rights) have |
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> received nothing. |
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> |
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> There is nothing to uphold the contention that they have forfeited their |
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> default right to rescind license to their property. |
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> They never made such a promise, they were never paid for such a promise, |
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> they never contracted for such, etc. |
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> |
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> They wrote code, licensed it gratuitously, |
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> and now an attempt is being made to both control their speech, their |
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> action, and to basically convert their property. |
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> |
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> Most of the entities who have been licensed the works have neither paid |
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> anything to the various rights-holders, |
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> nor have they ever contacted nor been contacted by the various |
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> rights-holders, etc. |
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