I wrote: > In the US that is not a grant of the GPL. Copyright law explicitly > gives you the right to run any program you own a copy of.
David Kastrup writes: > Where "own" means "lawfully acquired in an exchange of consideration from > somebody with the right to offer the software". I think you are confounding first sale with ยง 117. > Copyright law does not give you the right to run programs you have stolen > off a truck... In that case you do not own them. You merely possess them. > ...or obtained by [cr]acking into a server. In that case you do own the physical copies and may have a right to run them, but when the copyright owner sues you the court will order destruction of your copies and payment of damages. -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
