Re: Property according to Terekov

[Rui Miguel Silva Seabra]

On Sat, 2006-02-11 at 22:12 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
> David Kastrup wrote:
> [...]
> > Quite so.  You can merely recoup damages for the breach of copyright,
> 
> What breach? Distribution of authorized copies fall under first 
> sale.

Someone gave you a copy of Linux, let's call Linux A and your copy is B.

Let's analyse some situations:
1. You gave B to a friend
        that's first sale
1.1 your friend sold B to someone else
        that's first sale
1.2 your friend sold copies of B to other people (B1, B2, etc...)
        that's no longer first sale, that's distribution of new copies
        and that can only be done under the terms of the GNU GPL, the
        only license that permits those copies. Otherwise, copyright
        says your friend can't do that.

2. You sell B to someone else
        that's just like 1.1
2.1 that someone else gives copies of B to other people (B1, B2, etc...)
        that's just like 1.2

3. you give copies of B to other people (B1, B2, etc...)
        that's just like 1.2

Rui

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