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There are principles of arm's length and equal treatment among equals for contracts to be enforceable. Copyright licences are treated like contracts of adhesion in many jurisdictions (though not in USA). By-attribution share-alike , non-severability and non-revocation clauses in a share-alike licence attempt to make the parties equal, but it does not arrive quite in there, still leaving the copyright owner privileged a bit.

IANAL, YMMV




I realize I don't know much about licensing because I didn't understand a word of that.




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