Re: Free license

I wrote:
> >
> > 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?

Charles McGarry wrote:
>
> A license can be the subject of a gift, like almost anything else. It
> doesn't have to be a contractual right.

So a license is basically a grant of rights, which can be bought or sold (or given) according to its terms, and there is no contract except so far as the acquisition of the license is concerned?

Gerry Bluhm
gbluhm[_at_]cfa.harvard.edu Received on Wed Apr 17 1996 - 17:19:53 GMT