Re: Licensing question about the BSD

[David Kastrup]

John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:

> Rui writes:
>> ANOTHER is RUNNING FOR ANY PURPOSE. And this one HAS NO CONDITIONS.
>
> In the US that is not a grant of the GPL. Copyright law explicitly
> gives you the right to run any program you own a copy of.

Where "own" means "lawfully acquired in an exchange of consideration
from somebody with the right to offer the software".  Copyright law
does not give you the right to run programs you have stolen off a
truck, for example, or obtained by hacking into a server.  Not even
when those programs were derived from GPLed software or intended to be
sold as such.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum