"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Remember that the point Alfred was making is that because the > software is licensed under the GPL, he is allowed to make a copy > _even_ if the CD is not his property and he was acting as an agent > of licensee/owner of the copy. To him, the license is a magical > property attached to the software, and not an agreement between > licensor and licensee. > > It depends on the license. The GPL gives an explicity right for > this,
Nonsense. The GPL can't dictate that people may access my physical copies of software. > some other licenses may not. If I'm in the legal possession of > GPLed software, maybe because my employer gave me an CD to use and > install that specific program, then I'm also allowed to redistribute > it. Not if you are not owning it. > The employeer cannot state that I cannot do this, since the GPL > gives me this right. The GPL can only give the owner of a copy rights. > I think that employees do not have any rights to their employer's > property, whatever the conditions were under which it was > acquired. > > Even if the employer sold that property to the employee? Of course not (in that case, owership of the employer ceases). And the employer might also _grant_ the employee copying GPLed software from the company's media. The GPL gives the _employer_ the right to do so. But the employee can't take this right for granted. > (Note that my example was different, and more akin to person A > giving a gratis copy of a CD to person B; David AFAIK claims that > person A can still dictate what person B is allowed to do with the > content. I claim that David is wrong) As long as the copy remains the property of person A and person B acts only as agent of person A, yes, person A dictates all the terms under which person B might make use of person A's physical property. You really don't get internal use. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
