On Thu, Jan 27, 2005 at 01:26:27AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > Steve Langasek wrote: > > I don't think that Josh has said that -- especially given that you do not > > have to have a copyright license to *use* a program. [...] > That "given" was only clarified in English law fairly recently, added by > implementing some EU directive in the 1990s IIRC. In general, it seems > a little risky to rely on it. If we know a particular place's copyright > law is in use, or if someone smarter says "this holds everywhere and > here's references" then I'd be happy with that broad claim. :-/ My point was that, given that the proposed copyright license restriction does *not* protect against the described attack (in most jurisdictions), this example doesn't really justify why we would want to allow such a restriction. This restriction would have other real impacts on distributors and modifiers, as you mentioned, which we should be concerned about -- but the OP didn't address those at all. -- Steve Langasek postmodern programmer
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