Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>Russell Nelson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> David Cunningham writes:
>
>>> Would this license also prohibit me from modifying the source for my
>>> own personal use (not for redistribution?)
>
>> It's complicated. According to US copyright law, once you have a copy,
>> it is yours to dispose of as you wish.
>
>Which does not include the right to make derivative works, even if you
>don't redistribute them, by my reading of the actual U.S. copyright
>statute. Anyone in the U.S. who's curious should really read the actual
>law on <URL:http://www.loc.gov/copyright/>.
IANAL, but according to Section 117, Limitations on exclusive rights:
Computer programs, you *can* make derivative works for your own use:
Notwithstanding the provisions of section 106, it is not an
infringement for the owner of a copy of a computer program to make
or authorize the making of another copy or adaptation of that
computer program provided:
(1) that such a new copy or adaptation is created as an essential
step in the utilization of the computer program in conjunction
with a machine and that it is used in no other manner, or
...
If you have evidence to the contrary, please present it.
-Dave
