> It does boil down to that, you are still violating the license, > and in turn copyright law. Just that nobody knows of it so > nobody can sue you.
Not quite, as (at least in the USA) the copyright statues allow you to take reasonable action (including making or commissioning modifications) to make a legally obtained program run on your equipment. I'm not that familiar with the laws in the USA, but you have things like the DMCA which prohibit exactly that. > And if you use it internally in a business then you are > distributing the program to anyone who uses it. There seems to be large agreement on the interpretation that letting employees and agents of an organisation use software does not constitute distribution. It is distribution to the employees/agents. One could claim that each and every person is an agent, so and keep the software non-free without violating the licnse. Cheers. _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
