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Re: Licensing question about the BSD
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John Hasler |
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Re: Licensing question about the BSD |
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Tue, 09 Aug 2005 13:23:22 -0500 |
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I wrote:
> 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.
David Kastrup writes:
> Where "own" means "lawfully acquired in an exchange of consideration from
> somebody with the right to offer the software".
I think you are confounding first sale with ยง 117.
> Copyright law does not give you the right to run programs you have stolen
> off a truck...
In that case you do not own them. You merely possess them.
> ...or obtained by [cr]acking into a server.
In that case you do own the physical copies and may have a right to run
them, but when the copyright owner sues you the court will order
destruction of your copies and payment of damages.
--
John Hasler
john@dhh.gt.org
Dancing Horse Hill
Elmwood, WI USA
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