On Thu, Aug 13, 1998 at 11:29:25AM +0100, Philip Hands wrote: > > What do you say? > > I can get a MS word copy and use it on my own machine? No the copyright > > don't allow this! Your copyright don't allow it too. > > Not true. > > Take a look at this: > > ftp://koobera.math.uic.edu/www/softwarelaw.html > > Copyright confers a right to copy --- once you have a legally acquired copy of > a work you can do whatever you like to it, except make copies (i.e. in the case > of software, distribute it), unless allowed by the Copyright. > > So you can download this script, and change it and use it, without violating > the copyright, as long as you don't distribute the edited version. Thanks for the information. Grisu -- Michael Bramer - a Debian Certified Linux Developer http://www.debian.org PGP: finger grisu@master.debian.org -- Linux Sysadmin -- Use Debian Linux
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