Re: public lending right
Date: Wed, 06 Nov 2002 17:00:18 -0800
From: Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>
>Paul Johnson <baloo@ursine.dyndns.org> writes:
[big snips here & below]
>> On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 05:52:33PM -0600, John Hasler wrote:
>>> Paul Johnson writes:
>>> Non-free would be too much legal effort for a library to go through.
>>> I don't see why a public library even in the UK couldn't lend non-free.
>>> How would it differ from lending out a non-free book (i.e., the usual
>>> kind)?
>> It wouldn't surprise me if some packages have some goofball
>> redistribution clauses, like "May not charge for redistribution."
>> Well, what happens when someone doesn't turn it back in on time? They
>> get charged.
> No package in Debian can have such a clause. See:
http://www.debian.org/social_contract.html#guidelines
Suppose that at the end of the lending period the library demands back
only the CD _disk_ -- not the program, which has merely gone along for
the ride.
(As Huck Finn said of certain woodpiles, you could throw a dog through
that argument anywhere. Forget I mentioned it.)
Wendell Cochran
West Seattle
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