In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: > How about a link to this legislation, GNUtian ams? > > Sure, copyright law. But I doubt that you are familiar with that.
Try 17 USC 109. This is the codification of the first sale doctrine. Basically, it says that if you have a legal copy of a copyrighted work, you do *NOT* need the permission of the copyright owner to distribute it. This is why you can sell a book to a used bookstore, without having to contact the author and get permission. ... > Party B is not bound by the GPL because there was no assent to its > terms. > > By distributing the copy Party B accepted the license. That only works if distributing the copy is something that Party B is not entitled to do without a license. Because of first sale, Party B does not need the copyright owner's permission to distribute this copy, and so the act of distributing does not constitute acceptance of the offered license. -- --Tim Smith _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
