On Tue, 09 Sep 2003, Richard Braakman wrote: > That's a restriction imposed by copyright law, not by the license. > Unless you're talking about a modification-in-place, without making > any copies in the process. Yes, I'm talking about a modification-in-place. After re-reading I see I didn't make that very clear. Mea Culpa. > That's a very rare event when talking about electronic media. Yes, > you can draw funny pictures of RMS on the tapes you bought from the > FSF, and then resell them. Sure, but the software license purports to restrict this. The only way it can is if it's a lease. If it's a transfer of ownership, then it can't. I'm not totally convinced one way or another is right, but case law and legislation (UCITA, etc.) seems to be going towards leases. Don Armstrong -- "Ban cryptography! Yes. Let's also ban pencils, pens and paper, since criminals can use them to draw plans of the joint they are casing or even, god forbid, create one time pads to pass uncrackable codes to each other. Ban open spaces since criminals could use them to converse with each other out of earshot of the police. Let's ban flags since they could be used to pass secret messages in semaphore. In fact let's just ban all forms of verbal and non-verbal communication -- let's see those criminals make plans now!" http://www.donarmstrong.com http://www.anylevel.com http://rzlab.ucr.edu
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