Re: Artifex v. Diebold: "The GPL is non-commercial!"

[amicus_curious]

"Doug Mentohl" <doug_mentohl@linuxmail.org> wrote in message 
news:gmmuqd$odt$2@news.datemas.de...
> amicus_curious wrote:
>
> > > Your question is too complicated for a simple answer.
>
> Please quote all relevant legislation in any jurisdiction ..
>
> > But in the context of this thread, the downloading is expressly permitted 
> > and the GPL allows for your unfettered  personal use of both the binary 
> > image and the source code .. That seems to be a straightforward way of 
> > defeating at least one of the distribution caveats contained in the GPL.
>
> Please quote all relevant legislation in any jurisdiction ..

What part of 17 USC 109 did you miss?  That holds for the USofA and as far 
as I know it is followed in most other countries.  If it is not, then too 
bad for them.