Re: GPL traitor !

[Hyman Rosen]

Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> That bit of the law doesn't allow to hack the program
> you've cracked, though.

No, as I've said, the part of the law that does is this:
    <http://www.copyright.gov/title17/circ92.pdf> Page 69
    Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an
    infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to
    make or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of
    that computer program provided:
    (1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an
    essential step in the utilization of the computer program in
    conjunction with a machine and that it is used in no other
    manner,

You've already been quoted a court case that gives enormous latitude
to which changes may be considered "essential", and that latitude
includes adding new functionality.