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Re: RES: What makes software copyrightable anyway?



On Fri, May 13, 2005 at 02:06:23PM -0400, Raul Miller wrote:
> On 5/13/05, Adam McKenna <adam@flounder.net> wrote:
> > So what?  A user building a package locally has nothing to do with us.  If he
> > violates the license by distributing said binaries, he is liable, not us.
> 
> This isn't "nothing to do with us".  We've done practically all the work
> needed for the user to build that package locally, and we've documented
> how to do so.

Still, so what?  How is building the package locally equivalent to
infringement?

--Adam
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Adam McKenna  <adam@debian.org>  <adam@flounder.net>



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