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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Oh? As Kolenka also points out, open software licenses are copyright licenses. Thus, the enforcement of licenses like the GPL are explicitly based on copyright. So if you abolish copyright, you lose your ability to enforce your open license. |
Not under UK law. It's a clear case of a valid contract (The offer is the ability to use the software, and in return you accept conditions on redistribution). The limit on contracts is you cannot put in unfair terms, which would include badly unbalanced terms.
Also, well, the GPL might run into problems (as with many contracts) with the Plain English standards, but the preamble would establish the basics to be upheld in that case, and that's how it'd end up being enforced in-spirit.