On 8/18/06, Andre Tertling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Markus Laire wrote:
> > I don't really know if it's legal to use illegally acquired program if
> > you have a license for the program but not the program itself.
>
> Do you really want to start a lengthy discussion about whether I am
> using a legitimately created backup with my original license or not? For
> heaven's sake, I'll ship the original discs along with the license.
Your original comment was
>>> P.S. I am sure I have a stack of MS-DOS licenses somewhere in the
>>> basement. If someone really wants to have one, feel free to apply.
You didn't mention the software there, only the license, so I throught
that you meant that you could give a license to someone else, and
he/she should then download the program from illegal "warez" site like
www.bootdisk.com
> > I find it sad that many Free Software/Open Source developers find it
> > "silly" or "trolling" to fully consider legal matters, and I'm not
> > talking just FreeDOS.
>
> "Fully considering" as in "I'll sue you to death like SCO"? Of course,
> it is important not to open the door wide enough for lawyers and the
> like. But this particular case and, especially, your inappropriately
> truncated summary why FreeDOS is illegal make you look like a troll.
"Fully considering" as in not doing anything which is illegal.
When I talk about "illegal", I don't mean stuff which could get you in
trouble with lawyers. I really mean anything which is illegal (i.e.
against the law), even if one thinks that no-one will ever know.
Also, I didn't claim FreeDOS to be illegal, only that it would be
"created using illegal software". That might or might not make FreeDOS
itself illegal.
> It would help tremendously if you could elaborate a bit on your thoughts
> - and not just state that you don't like FreeDOS because it is illegal.
What I don't like is people thinking that it's OK to act illegally.
I'll admit that my bar in this is extremely high. Even if FreeDOS
itself were legal, but I knew that its developers had used illegal
means while creating it, that would definitely make it less desirable
in my eyes.
I don't know if it's legal to use a copy of MSDOS obtained from
warez-site if you have a proper license. But I do know that I want to
stay as far as possible from any illegal activity. (warez is, by
definition, illegal)
So I was somewhat suprised to see a warez-site recommended on this list.
> Apart from that you probably don't even know if anything illegal took
> place at all - you just imagine it *could* be, and thus it has to.
I think it's quite clear that www.bootdisk.com is a warez-site.
I think that it should be illegal to use software obtained from
warez-site even if you have a license to use that software. But as
said before, I don't know if that's illegal or not.
("warez" meaning "copyrighted material traded in violation of
copyright law.", from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warez )
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Markus Laire
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