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To: general_re
The sale of a license to you is itself a contract to make software available for your use in exchange for your money.

No, it's simply a license that I bought. Likewise, with the GPL, there is no contract. The GPL is simply that which allows me to use another's coyprighted work where before there was no allowance. The Windows XP license has terms in it that would likely be declared invalid if the license were interpreted as a contract.

66 posted on 05/19/2005 6:33:22 AM PDT by antiRepublicrat
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To: antiRepublicrat
No, it's simply a license that I bought.

The agreement to buy that license is a contract. You agree to pay money, they agree to give you a license. I'm really not quite sure what you gain by denying this, but you're completely wrong in asserting that contract doesn't enter in anywhere.

74 posted on 05/19/2005 6:51:53 AM PDT by general_re ("Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith, but in doubt." - Reinhold Niebuhr)
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