Related:
agree,
bind together, charter, constrict,
private
law
A
contract is an
legal
agreement such as a
license, lease,
agreement,
treaty.
/*Contract \Con"
tract\, n.
[L. contractus, fr. contrahere: cf. F.
contrat, formerly also contract.]
1.
(Law) The
agreement of two or more
persons, upon a
sufficient consideration or cause, to do, or to abstain
from doing, some
act; an
agreement in which a
party
undertakes to do, or not to do, a
particular
thing; a
formal bargain; a
compact; an
interchange of
legal
rights.
--Wharton.*/
The
GNU General Public Law is a
contract between two or more
persons.