On Sat, 2008-01-12 at 20:45 +0000, Jon Grant wrote: > If i go into a web-cafe and go online and use Firefox on KDE desktop > is anyone obliged to offer me the source code? I've only rented 15mins > of online time afterall.
That's different, you're renting use of a computer (a service), which isn't the same as software rental. Free software doesn't cover use of the work usually, and that's all the user is doing - using it. I suspect the act of renting GPL'd software is technically illegal simply because the GPL doesn't allow it: lending and hiring are specific rights in law, so if the GPL doesn't permit them then you don't have them. Obviously, you can kind of emulate it by giving people copies of the software which perhaps even could terminate, but there would be no way to enforce that termination. Cheers, Alex. _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
