Re: Web application licenses
> > I'll agree that you're not seeing the raw bits, but nobody ever sees
> > the raw bits. Instead, you see things resulting from those bits.
On Wed, Aug 18, 2004 at 09:51:13AM +0200, Måns Rullgård wrote:
> You just defeated yourself. Nobody has ever tried to extend the
> copyright of a program to include output produced when running the
> program. Why would this be different when the program sends its
> output over a network?
This is kinda like:
Don't be silly. If there were a $10 bill on the street, someone
would have already picked it up.
However, I'll agree that copyright law doesn't fit very well into the
realm of computer programs and machine-machine communications. That's
not what it was designed to for.
--
Raul
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