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by londons_explore 1456 days ago
I think the distinction is that if the parties involved don't have a contract between them, copyright law applies.

But if there is a contract in place, then copyright law no longer applies, and you instead have to resolve any disputes as if they were violations of a contract.

The difficulty being that the GPL allows anyone to enter into a contract without even consent of the other party, and the contract law courts may not see that as a valid contract.

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> The difficulty being that the GPL allows anyone to enter into a contract without even consent of the other party

No, it doesn't. Voluntarily, publicly offering the GPL as license terms is consenting to others accepting that offer.