Adam McKenna writes: > On Fri, Mar 17, 2006 at 04:34:40PM -0500, Michael Poole wrote: > > If you copy a copyrighted work, you need permission from law (which is > > limited to things like a single backup copy, fair use, and so forth) > > or from the copyright owner. Under copyright law and under the > > language of the FDL, it does not matter whether you make that copy for > > distribution or not. > > Which kinds of non-distributional copying are not covered by fair use?
Plenty. 17 USC 107 defines fair use. Many non-US jurisdictions do not have any fair use provisions under copyright law. > What part of copyright law states that you can only have one backup copy? 17 USC 117 is what allows you to make a backup copy under US law. Again, if you try that outside of the US, your mileage may vary. > > Computer security need not be entirely done away with, just done away > > with in the context of works under this license. > > Since we are only discussing works distributed under this license, it is > essentially the same thing. If they are the same thing, then the GFDL clearly contaminates other works stored on the same computer, failing DFSG#9. Michael Poole -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]