Free license

Lance Rose, author of "NetLaw Your Rights in the Online World" states (p. 93) that

"[i]f a creator of a set of program files states that you can use his or her program files for free, but you can't modify them, then he or she did not give up copyright at all. They only gave you a free license to use the files in unchanged form."

Isn't a license a form of contract? Doesn't a contract require consideration? Where's the consideration here? Is my agreement not to modify the program sufficient? Or is there another theory going on here?

Gerry Bluhm
<gbluhm[_at_]head-cfa.harvard.edu> Received on Tue Apr 16 1996 - 00:55:10 GMT