[odf-discuss] ODF adoption considered in Oregon

[Thomas Zander]

On Thursday 29 March 2007 09:27, Alex Hudson wrote:
> Thomas Zander wrote:
> > Since a license (which stands on the copyright laws) is always a legal
> > restriction and often imposes restrictions that in some manner can be
> > called technical (like not being able to use GPL in proprietary code and
> > sell that). 
>
> Usually, a free software license doesn't actually restrict anything -
> for a license to be able to restrict things which weren't already
> restricted by copyright law would mean that the license would need to
> become a proper contract, I think.

The GPL actually is a contract.
One you choose to accept when you use the software/code.

-- 
Thomas Zander
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