Re: A possible GFDL compromise

[Anthony DeRobertis <asd@suespammers.org>]

On Wednesday, Aug 27, 2003, at 15:38 US/Eastern, Brian T. Sniffen wrote:

> Both of these example licenses offer me a trade: they will permit me
> to do certain things otherwise forbidden by copyright law (i.e., copy 
> the
> program onto my computer)

This is quite off-topic, but if that is an essential step of using the 
program, then copyright law does allow you to do that. See Title 17, 
Sec. 117(a).

At least in the US, that is. Others have noted that, for example, the 
UK is different.