Now, that is a genuine academic argument. I am sure the issue will never be resolved to everyone's satisfaction...primarily because no one cares enough about what you do to software you lawfully possess and want to hack for private and personal use. Who would bring such a lawsuit, and how would the suit get past a motion to dismiss?
Rod --------- Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.cyberspaces.org ...... Original Message ....... On Wed, 9 Jun 2004 11:29:14 -0700 Rick Moen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >Quoting Stephen C. North ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > >> Do you say the law prevents me from taking a legal copy of a copyrighted >> work, which is a program, and privately modifying that program for my own use? > >John Cowan says yes: > http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/modifications >Dan Bernstein says no: > http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html > >When you get that resolved, please let me know. > >-- >license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3 > -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
