Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Stefaan A Eeckels wrote: > [...] >> royalties, or a license fee). If you come to such an agreement, you can >> distribute the combined work under another license (or no license at >> all, in which case standard copyright provisions would apply). > > Eeckels, Eeckels. No license is needed to "distribute combined work" > under 17 USC 117 and 17 USC 109. I mean addition exact copies (e.g. > copies of "library" programs inside "executables" or whatever > containers and aggregations like jars or whatnot) made under 17 USC > 117 and distributed along with "originals" (e.g. downloaded, implied > license to save bandwidth aside for a moment) under 17 USC 109. > > Any exact copies prepared in accordance with the provisions of > this section may be leased, sold, or otherwise transferred, along > with the copy from which such copies were prepared, only as part > of the lease, sale, or other transfer of all rights in the program. > > And contu6 elaborates: "[t]he sale of a copy of a program by a > rightful possessor to another must be of all rights in the program, > thus creating a new rightful possessor and destroying that status as > regards the seller. This is in accord with the intent of that portion > of the law which provides that owners of authorized copies of a > copyrighted work may sell those copies without leave of the copyright > proprietor.50 ... 50 17 U.S.C. ยง 109".
That does not give you the right to create _new_ copies. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
