[$] Licenses and contracts

<p>Some days it seems that wherever two or more free-software enthusiastsgather together, there also shall be licensing discussions. One such,which can get quite heated, is the question of whether a givenfree-software license is a license, or whether it is really a contract. This distinction is important, because most legal systems treat the twodifferently. I know from personal experience that that discussion can goon, unresolved, for long periods, but it had not previously occurred tome to wonder whether this might be due to the answer being different indifferent jurisdictions. Fortunately, it has occurred to some lawyersto wonder just that, and three of them came together at FOSDEM 2018 topresent their conclusions.<p>Subscribers can read on for a report on the talk by guest author Tom Yates.