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Re: Some licensing questions regarding celestia



On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 03:37:47PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote:

> > 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.

*NOT* in the case of licenses that are considered free.

-- 
Steve Langasek
postmodern programmer

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