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Re: GPL traitor !
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David Combs |
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Re: GPL traitor ! |
Date: |
Sun, 14 Jun 2009 01:48:21 +0000 (UTC) |
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
- Re: GPL traitor !,
David Combs <=
- Re: GPL traitor !, David Combs, 2009/06/13
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, David Kastrup, 2009/06/14
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, David Kastrup, 2009/06/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, David Kastrup, 2009/06/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, Hyman Rosen, 2009/06/15
- Re: GPL traitor !, David Kastrup, 2009/06/15