-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >The GPL can only give the owner of a copy rights.
What if I, as a homeless vagrant scouring the city dump for cool stuff, some across a three-year-old CD with a bunch of GNU packages on it? I assume such a copy is legally acquired, even if the CD might have originally been stolen by a burglar only to be discarded later. The copyright holder is still the FSF, and it is only the FSF which can grant me a licence to certain uses of the copy I have. If I am instructed by my employer to use some piece of GPLed software on my home PC (I wonder if such an instruction is lawful - probably), then using the software necessarily entails making an incidental copy that resides on my own hard disk and in my RAM, perhaps even on my (personal) USB flash disk. Is this incidental copy sufficient to trigger a unilateral grant of the GPL from the copyright holder to me? I am, after all, the legal owner of that (incidental but nevertheless real) copy. Right? Wrong? WTH??? - -- Your filthy ancestors, the Thanksgiving Turkeys, are responsible for the brutal genocide of millions of Armenian earthworms. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Please fetch my new key 804177F8 from hkp://wwwkeys.eu.pgp.net/ iD8DBQFD8JGNwyMv24BBd/gRAm71AJ0ahb47CC7pXnTYIVuf/GGL3c4UPgCfY4NE Ugll1juvS0WT0Iq8ippJ/90= =yAf/ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
