Enforcing the GNU GPL

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Citation: Sapna Kumar (2006) Enforcing the GNU GPL.
Internet Archive Scholar (search for fulltext): Enforcing the GNU GPL
Wikidata (metadata): Q64410334
Download: https://scholarship.law.duke.edu/faculty scholarship/1857/
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Describes arguments and problems with GNU GPL considered as a license (revocability) and as contract (no consideration). Argues GPL can be relied upon and enforced by licensees (through promissory estoppel) and licensors (copyright). Further argues that GPL violators could lose ability to enforce their own copyrights through unclean hands and copyright misuse. Copyright law could specify how open source licenses such as the GPL work.