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  • From: drew Roberts <zotz AT 100jamz.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: CC licenses and "moral rights"
  • Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2005 11:05:55 -0500

On Monday 28 March 2005 09:32 am, Peter Brink wrote:
> Branko Collin skrev:
> > Yes.
> >
> > A license may become void if the terms are not met, but I doubt the
> > reader will still have to fulfill those terms once the license has
> > become void.
>
> Ah, are you talking about how, or rather when, a user of a work licensed
> under an open source/content becomes bound by the terms of the license?
>
> Obviously you don't *have* to make use of the offer in, for example GPL.
> You are only assumed to make use of the offer if you do something for
> which you need the permission(s) license gives you. Publishing a
> derivative work is a good example. As long as you don't publish any
> derivative work the license remains unused.
>
> Or as the CC licenses preamble put it: "By exercising any rights to the
> work provided here, you accept and agree to be bound by the terms of
> this license. The licensor grants you the rights contained here in
> consideration of your acceptance of such terms and conditions."
>
>
> /Peter Brink


Yes, and it may be that by speaking of consideration, the CC licenses move
into the realm of contract. I think I asked this question a few days ago.

However I cannot find the word consideration in the text of the GPL.

http://www.fsf.org/licensing/licenses/gpl.txt

all the best,

drew




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