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From: paul@sun600.UUCP (Paul E. Black)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: Is the GNU license enforceable?
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Date: 1 Aug 89 20:19:53 GMT
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In article <10031@fluke.COM> kurt@tc.fluke.COM (Kurt Guntheroth) writes:
>....  You can make a contract with any terms imaginable, no matter how
>one-sided or egregious, as long as it follows the basic legal format for a
>contract (...) and does not contract for something illegal (...).

I have no legal training, however I understood that courts "commonly"
void contracts which are too one-sided on the grounds that the party
on the short end of the contract didn't realize how bad it was.

On the other hand, I consider myself morally obligated to uphold
contracts I  explicitly or implicitly enter into.

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