Re: using GPL api to be used in a properietary software

[David Kastrup]

Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
> [...]
>> > Combined as in what? Can you print two different stories (bought
>> > electronically) on the same sheet of paper (to form a combined
>> > printout) or not?
>> 
>> That certainly falls under fair use _unless_ you choose to
>> redistribute them again.  For that you need a licence.
>
> 17 USC 109 (known as "copyright exhaustion" in Europe), stupid.
>
> I have all the rights to sell/dispose that sheet of paper.

If the printout is has been agreed by both parties to be the
_tangible_ copy that you have paid for.  If the tangible copy covered
by the sale is a CD, then you can dispose of the CD in likewise
manner, but not of a printout.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum