My dear Mr. Rjack,
please note:
In gnu.misc.discuss Rjack <user@example.net> wrote:
Alan Mackenzie wrote:
The following paragraph, originally cited by you, is talking about
copying source code. Note: SOURCE CODE.
"1. You may copy and distribute verbatim copies of the
Program's source code as you receive it, in any medium,
provided that you conspicuously and appropriately publish on
each copy an appropriate copyright notice and disclaimer of
warranty; keep intact all the notices that refer to this
License and to the absence of any warranty; and give any
other recipients of the Program a copy of this License along
with the Program."
Er, what's that got to do with anything? Who's talking about
source code? The topic was Groklaw's reporting of Psystar's
court loss, concerning its distribution of Apple's OS in
violation of copyright.
Before asking such nonsense questions, try reading the title of
this thread and one of the quotes objected to.
The title of this thread has, at best, a tenuous connection with
that paragraph you cited. Would you please read that paragraph
again.
Now, the following paragraph, again cited by you, has nothing to do
with source code. It is talking about "owning a copy" of an Apple
operating system, that copy being essentially 100% machine
executable code. There is no source code concerned here.
"Even if Psystar were the lawful owner of the copy, it still
can't do what it did. The court quotes from Microsoft Corp. v.
Software Wholesale Club, Inc.: "the first-sale doctrine does not
apply to an admittedly counterfeit unit". So, no, you can't buy a
copy and use it to go into a counterfeiting business, in effect.
Terekhov's theory has bitten the dust and then had to eat some.
Just like Daniel Wallace's anti-GPL theory did. Whoever is
relying on their legal theories might want to buy a vowel and try
to figure this puzzle out."
http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20091114101637997
If you still have to ask such silly questions then you don't
belong here. Try Groklaw instead.
Please do try to pay attention to what you cite.