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Re: Results for Debian's Position on the GFDL



On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:34:40PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote:
> If you copy a copyrighted work, you need permission from law (which is
> limited to things like a single backup copy, fair use, and so forth)
> or from the copyright owner.  Under copyright law and under the
> language of the FDL, it does not matter whether you make that copy for
> distribution or not.

Which kinds of non-distributional copying are not covered by fair use?

What part of copyright law states that you can only have one backup copy?

> Computer security need not be entirely done away with, just done away
> with in the context of works under this license.

Since we are only discussing works distributed under this license, it is 
essentially the same thing.

--Adam



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