Rui Miguel Silva Seabra [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
The thing is that the copyright licenses of software like Microsoft
explicitly say you have to have one license per computer. Now... if they
were only stating copyright law, would they have to do that?
No. Because copyright law would not allow
Uber GNUtian Alfred M. Szmidt wrote: (to GNUtian dak)
[...]
No wonder why Alexander likes you enough to `unplonk' you.
Erm. I've unplonked you both sometime around last Silvester. Then I've
replonked you, ams. GNUtian dak didn't take my offer of free replonk,
go ask mini-RMS (he volunteered to
Stefaan A Eeckels wrote:
[...]
Of course they can. The copyright holder most definitely cannot control
how the software is used (unless there is a contract stipulating
such), because copyright law doesn't give such rights - it's the right
to make and distribute copies that is granted to the
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:50 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
[... legal scheme to escape copyleft ...]
I resent the innuendo implicated by this cut, which could lead someone
to think I wrote a legal scheme to escape copyleft.
Another of your nice works of
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 11:50 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
[... legal scheme to escape copyleft ...]
I resent the innuendo implicated by this cut, which could lead someone
to think I wrote a legal scheme to escape
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
[...]
The thing is that the copyright licenses of software like Microsoft
explicitly say you have to have one license per computer. Now... if they
were only stating copyright law, would they have to do that?
What they are stating is this: (MS EULA)
*
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 14:35 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Keep in mind that copyright law doesn't concern itself with
distribution of AUTHORIZED copies and that the act of distribution
doesn't turn AUTHORIZED copies into unauthorized copies.
Here you go again, confusing _your_copy_ with
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 17:46 +0100, Alexander Terekhov wrote:
Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
[...]
The thing is that the copyright licenses of software like Microsoft
explicitly say you have to have one license per computer. Now... if they
were only stating copyright law, would they have to
