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Originally Posted by DuckieTigger
Court of law is a relative term. Which court? Even the gnu webpage is not really clear about it:
https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-violation.html
Which makes it almost sound like that the GPL is enforceable under copyright law rather than contract law. |
That is exactly it. GPL violators have tried in court to use contract law to weasel out of their obligations and they have failed. Copyright law forbids copying without a license and the GPL is carefully crafted to protect the rights of software users. A license under GPL is automatically granted by abiding its terms and automatically denied or revoked by violating them.