Re: "GPL requirement could have a chilling effect on derivativedistros"

[David Kastrup]

Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> David Kastrup wrote:
> [...]
>> >> I suppose that you look up "archive" in a dictionary of your choice.
>> >
>> > Uh, "the material preserved". (See also 17 USC 117.)
>> 
>> Yes, and a preparatory step for creating a CD can hardly be called a
>> preservational measure.
>
> I don't see why.

Because it is a copy on the way to a CD.

> A CD may have a defect and/or burner can go kaputt right at 99%. Hey
> dak, even Time Warner got it right.

But rechristening the archival CD afterwards as something you can sell
separately is not going to fly well with the courts.

You really seem to be of the opinion that courts are supposed to enjoy
mincing words.  But it is their purpose to deliver justice, not
wordplay.

-- 
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum