%% Dominik Vogt <fvwm-workers@fvwm.org> writes: I do not agree with your interpretations of the GPL WRT the legality of restricting use, but since we appear to have come down to "you're wrong" vs. "no you're wrong", it doesn't seem productive to continue with that :)
>> Copyright covers only certain activities: modification, >> redistribution, _public_ performances, translation to another >> language, etc. >> >> Consider: when you buy a book at the store you do not have to have >> a special license to _read_ that book; you won't find any language >> in any book that explicitly gives you that right. Similarly, if >> you buy a CD you don't need a license to allow you to listen to it. dv> But we are not talking about buying or selling a product. If we dv> sold fvwm, then the act of selling would imply the right for the dv> buyer to use what she bought. But we don't sell fvwm and thus the dv> legal framework of the selling/buying transaction do not apply. Copyright has nothing to do with buying and selling: that is contract law. Copyright is in effect regardless of whether or not you paid anything for the work. Library books are still copyright, even though you didn't pay for them. Books given as birthday presents, or CDs given away for promotion, are still copyright even though they were free. If you pick up a magazine lying on the street, copyright does not prevent you from reading that magazine. -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Paul D. Smith <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HASMAT--HA Software Mthds & Tools "Please remain calm...I may be mad, but I am a professional." --Mad Scientist ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These are my opinions---Nortel Networks takes no responsibility for them. -- Visit the official FVWM web page at <URL:http://www.fvwm.org/>. To unsubscribe from the list, send "unsubscribe fvwm-workers" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To report problems, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
