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Old 05-16-2018, 01:36 PM   #25
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Originally Posted by j.p.s View Post
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.
Yes, but actually last precedent is that it is a contract issue and not a copyright issue, no matter if GNU wants to call it a copyright license or not.

See: http://www.theregister.co.uk/AMP/201...able_contract/
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