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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 10 years ago 2014-03-18 22:33:35
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Add paragraph regarding Jacobsen.

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 copyright law.  Only when you engage in those activities that might have an
 impact on the freedom of others does license acceptance occur, and the
 terms begin to bind you to fair and equitable sharing of the software.  In
 other words, the GPL only kicks in when it needs to for the sake of
 freedom.
 While GPL is by default a copyright license, it is certainly still possible
 to consider GPL as a contract as well.  For example, some distributors chose
 to ``wrap'' their software in an acceptance ceremony to GPL, and nothing in
 GPL prohibits that use.  Furthermore, the ruling in \textit{Jacobsen
   v. Katzer, 535 F.3d 1373, 1380 (Fed.Cir.2008)} indicates that \textbf{both}
 copyright and contractual remedies may be sought by a copyright holder
 seeking to enforce a license designed to uphold software freedom.
 \section{Using GPL Both as a Contract and Copyright License}
 \section{GPLv2~\S6: GPL, My One and Only}
 \label{GPLv2s6}
 A point that was glossed over in Section~\ref{GPLv2s4}'s discussion of GPLv2~\S4

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