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#! rnews 1739 bsd Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!lucy.swin.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!feed1.news.erols.com!cpk-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!news.bbnplanet.com!cam-news-hub1.bbnplanet.com!howland.erols.net!newsxfer3.itd.umich.edu!news.itd.umich.edu!usenet From: Timothy Watson <tmwatson@umich.edu> Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.networking,comp.os.linux.advocacy,comp.unix.bsd.misc,comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy,comp.os.os2.advocacy Subject: Re: GPL Date: Fri, 07 Feb 1997 08:12:04 -0500 Organization: University of Michigan Lines: 11 Message-ID: <32FB2A24.7611@umich.edu> References: <32DFFEAB.7704@usa.net> <32F167BB.41C67EA6@freebsd.org> <0rnuc5.3e1.ln@zen> <5cvodo$hme@omega.gmd.de> <5db0q8$1f6i@usenet1y.prodigy.net> <5dd2mc$ad5@omega.gmd.de> Reply-To: tmwatson@umich.edu NNTP-Posting-Host: aha399.ccs.itd.umich.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (Win16; I) Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.os.linux.misc:156893 comp.os.linux.networking:67652 comp.os.linux.advocacy:82854 comp.unix.bsd.misc:2374 comp.os.ms-windows.nt.advocacy:52176 comp.os.os2.advocacy:266394 Holger Veit wrote: > The point is here that the term 'license' is void in German law. What is > there are certain (difficult to translate without loss of juridical > semantics) "conditions in a trade contract". There are certain clauses > which are considered "surprising" and are therefore void. An example Well, "license" is an English word. Maybe looking at it as a contract IS the deal. Now, you only have to explain why a German lawyer should see such a contract as "surprising." -Tim Watson