On Mon, Sep 08, 2003 at 01:46:35PM -0700, Don Armstrong wrote: > On Mon, 08 Sep 2003, Richard Braakman wrote: > > Um, you missed "or other transfer of ownership". > > I didn't see it being applicable to software licences in general.
It looks very general to me, covering all transfers of ownership like it does. > > The recipient gains ownership of a copy (and sometimes this is an > > actual sale, where money changes hands), and gets a license to make > > and distribute further copies under certain conditions. > > Sure, but we're generally not talking about sale or transfer of > ownership in the context of free software licenses, because the > license limits what you can do with your copy. That is, I often can't > take my copy, modify it, and resell the binary to someone else like I > could do with any other tangible copyrighted work. Huh? That's a restriction imposed by copyright law, not by the license. Unless you're talking about a modification-in-place, without making any copies in the process. That's a very rare event when talking about electronic media. Yes, you can draw funny pictures of RMS on the tapes you bought from the FSF, and then resell them. Richard Braakman
