Dave Sill <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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
Making a derivative work is not an essential step in the utilization of a
computer program. That clause is covering making an in-memory copy of a
program so as to be able to execute it. "Essential step" says pretty
clearly, to me at least, that if you don't have to do it in order to use
the computer program in the manner it was intended to be used, you don't
have a right to do it.
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Russ Allbery ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) <URL:http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/>
