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Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java
From: |
Alexander Terekhov |
Subject: |
Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java |
Date: |
Fri, 03 Dec 2004 13:01:08 +0100 |
David Kastrup wrote:
[...]
> > It's not a copyright violations to distribute lawfully made copies
> > that I own.
>
> Not? So when I acquire a copy of Microsoft Windows, and make 50 legal
> backup copies of it, I can sell those copies again, and it is not a
> copyright violation?
Backup copies can be distributed along with non-backup copies
from which backup copies were prepared. I'm not talking about
backup copies.
>
> Are you sure about that? Really, really, sure? I would certainly not
> want to go out on a limb like that without you promising very solemnly
> that you are quite sure.
>
> > Thank you for your unilateral permission to make copies
>
> Oh, but it was a conditional permission with strings attached. The
> GPL.
Whatever.
>
> > and for public availability of your work all over the net. I don't
> > need another permission to distribute from you in addition to "first
> > sale" limitation of your exclusive distribution right.
>
> First sale? So what did you pay me to make this "first sale"?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cauv72%249nu%241%40vegh.ks.cc.utah.edu
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=cauvfk%249sc%241%40vegh.ks.cc.utah.edu
> Would
> that also mean that if a newspaper has an online edition, I am free to
> take parts of their articles, claim them as my own and republish them,
> according to some first sale availability all over the net?
http://groups.google.com/groups?selm=40CF498F.7D7CC3E9%40web.de
regards,
alexander.
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, (continued)
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/12/02
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, John Hasler, 2004/12/02
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/12/03
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, John Hasler, 2004/12/02
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, David Kastrup, 2004/12/02
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, John Hasler, 2004/12/02
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, David Kastrup, 2004/12/02
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, John Hasler, 2004/12/02
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/12/03
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, David Kastrup, 2004/12/03
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- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, David Kastrup, 2004/12/03
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/12/03
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, David Kastrup, 2004/12/03
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/12/03
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, David Kastrup, 2004/12/03
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/12/03
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, David Kastrup, 2004/12/03
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/12/03
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, David Kastrup, 2004/12/03
- Re: LGPL reverse engineering clause & Java, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/12/03