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.

In the unlikely event that anyone _else_ isn't getting the point:  The
copyright statute _is_ the mechanism.  Moglen and/or Rosen, opera cit.,
can be consulted for details.

> Got case law?

Was there some particular part of the phrase "shortage of" that you missed?