Re: GPL traitor !

[David Combs]

In article <A__Ol.23949$hX2.20542@newsfe19.iad>,
Hyman Rosen  <hyrosen@mail.com> wrote:
>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.

For those who've started reading this thread after a lot of
the earlier stuff has "expired" from our isp's news-stuff (name?),
could you please again quote that case (and any other you might
have earlier quoted, too).

THANKS!

David