Lawrence E. Rosen scripsit: > You "own" a copy of the software under a license from the copyright and > patent holders.
Why the horror quotes? Ownership is not absolute _alodium_, right enough, but subject to the copyright owner's enumerated interests, ownership of a lawful copy looks to me much like ownership of any other chattel. You buy a book, you get to read it, scribble on it, burn it, use it to check erosion in a gully. Same story for free software. -- John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ccil.org/~cowan www.reutershealth.com "The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague." --Edsger Dijkstra -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
