Tim Churches wrote: > Can't get much clearer than that.
Whoops! Sorry about all the embedded HTML links, making it most unclear. Here is the relevant Australian law in a clearer form:
COPYRIGHT ACT 1968 (as amended by the Copyright Amendment Act 2000) - SECT 47B
*Reproduction for normal use or study of computer programs*
(1) Subject to subsection (2), the copyright in a literary work that is a computer program is not infringed by the making of a reproduction of the work if:
(a) the reproduction is incidentally and automatically made as part of the technical process of running a copy of the program for the purposes for which the program was designed; and
(b) the running of the copy is done by, or on behalf of, the owner or licensee of the copy .
(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to the making of a reproduction of a computer program:
(a) from an infringing copy of the computer program ; or
(b) contrary to an express direction or licence given by, or on behalf of, the owner of the copyright in the computer program to the owner or licensee of the copy from which the reproduction is made when the owner or licensee of that copy acquired it.
I see no express directions or other provisions in the GPL which would invoke section 47(2). Indeed, the GPL says: "The act of running the Program is not restricted".
Tim C
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