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by Anonymous User on Wed Apr 13, 2005 at 07:55:15 AM PDT

Yes, sorry, I didn't mean to imply that in the absence of a contract ANYTHING GOES. Even without a contract, all existing legal protections would exist and would apply, such as copyright, patent, DMCA (ugh!), etc. But, still, I wonder, how can the terms of a LICENSE be enforced WITHOUT a contract? Is that possible? Can I be held accountable to the terms of a license if I DON'T KNOW and DID NOT AGREE to a license. What if I just found some GPLed software on a disk and incorporated it in my own proprietary software. I can see how the remedy might be to force me to remove the GPL code from my software, but I don't see how any additional liability can accrue when I was ignorant of the license. A CONTRACT PROVES knowledge. The mere existence of a license does not. Can any legal scholars respond to this?

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