Re: Can a recipients rights under GNU GPL be revoked?
On Sunday, January 27, 2019 02:41:49 PM Richard Hector wrote:
> On 28/01/19 3:32 AM, John Hasler wrote:
> > Note that under USA law the right to *use* (including the right to make
> > such transient and temporary copies as might be required for effective
> > use) a copy of a program of which one is a legitimate owner is automatic
> > and requires no license.
>
> IANAL, but ok. But what defines a 'legitimate owner'? No ownership
> rights are generally transferred with a piece of software, right?
IANAL either (aside: when I first saw that acronym, a long time ago, I thought
(from the context) that someone was trying to say they were not a liar -- to a
certain extent, I sometime consider the two words synonymous ;-)
Anyway, I don't think "legitimate owner" (of the software) is quite the right
phrase, it is more like "legitimate owner of a copy of the software" and / or
the "legitimate owner of a license (or right) to use the software".
(And, yes, consideration is required (afaik), but it is not necessarily
financial -- it could be (I think) agreement to uphold the terms of the
license.
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