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----- No, the District Court had it right. If your license says "you can copy this software provided you do X, Y, and Z", then you have a license to copy the software. No doing X, Y, and Z violates the license, but does not violate copyright law. I can't make a license that says, "you can copy this software provided you don't pick your nose" and then sue you for copyright infringement for picking your nose. Because lawsuits for copyright infringement have special powers (like statutory damages and a presumption of irreparable harm), we can't let people decide what's copyright infringement just by writing it in a license. Congress has to do that. This ruling is very wrong and very troubling. ----- regards, alexander. -- http://gng.z505.com/index.htm (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards too, whereas GNU cannot.) _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
