ESR: "We Don't Need the GPL Anymore"

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Michael K. Edwards (m.k.edwards@gmail.com):

> On 7/13/05, Rick Moen <rick@linuxmafia.com> wrote:
> > 
> > But of course, he does; it's the copyright statute.
> 
> No copyright statute in English-speaking legal history has ever
> provided for a mechanism for copyright license outside contract law.

It's the copyright statute.  

ObWarGames:  "This is an interesting game, Professor: The only way to
win is not to play."

(I don't have time to argue with everything-must-be-a-contract people.)

> Got case law?

Got notorious shortage of it.