Re: Licensing question about the BSD

[David Kastrup]

Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> writes:

> Rui Miguel Seabra wrote:
> [...]
>>   <<the owner of a particular copy or phonorecord lawfully made under
>> this title, or any person authorized by such owner, is entitled, without
>> the authority of the copyright owner, to sell or otherwise dispose of
>> the possession of that copy or phonorecord.>>
>>                   ^^^^^^^^^
>> 
>> So you can do whatever with _YOUR_COPY_ but you still can't
>> redistribute copies of it.
>
> Downloads aside for a moment, the GPL permits reproduction,

Under conditions.

> and, under the idiotic "not-a-contract" theory, it just can't compel
> me to relinquish the distribution right that I enjoy under the
> copyright law (17 USC 109) being the owner of all those NEW
> "particular copies" that I've lawfully made:

Uh, you had no "lawful" right to make those particular copies: you had
only _conditional_ rights granted by the GPL.

> I can distribute them as I see fit (apart from rental) without the
> authority of the copyright owner.

But you could not create them in the first place without the authority
of the copyright owner.

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David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum