Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:16:34 +0100 From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) Cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Open Source License: Single Supplier Open Source License Message-ID: <xzp1xpmoqfx.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <yjhdyjs2o3.dyj@mail.comcast.net> (Gary W. Swearingen's message of "Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:24:12 -0800") References: <20040125195023.GA2469@online.fr> <yjhdyjs2o3.dyj@mail.comcast.net>
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underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: > Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@online.fr> writes: > > You don't require its permission for that. If you legally have a copy > > of it, you can do what you like to it, just as if you legally > > purchased a book, you may scribble on its margins. > You are wrong. If you legally have a copy of it, you can do what you > agreed to do with it, else you've violated your copyright license > agreement to copy, derive, and/or and publish. No. The right to modify etc. that the law grants you cannot be repealed by the license; if the license says you can't modify or reverse-engineer the software (for your own use), the license is wrong and unenforceable. Likewise if it says you can't publish reviews or benchmarks without the author's permission. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no
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