John Hasler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 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.
"Sale". >> 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 Wrong. You own the media, not the content. > and may have a right to run them, How would you have acquired that? > but when the copyright owner sues you the court will order > destruction of your copies Because of the content to which you have no claim of ownership. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
