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Licenses are just contracts
that seems like a common misconception. licenses are one-way permission grants. they can be contracts in some jurisdictions, but usually contracts are agreements involving meeting of minds. licenses aren't like that, they don't impose obligations, they can at most delimit the permissions that are granted for the licensee to do things that, by law, require permission from the licensor. if it goes beyond granting permissions, say requiring the other party to refrain from doing things that the party could do before, then it's an agreement. the agreement (thus contract) may contain some licensing, which makes it a licensing agreement, but the licensing by itself doesn't require agreement
Alexandre Oliva
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