"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > If you are an employee of mine and get access to software in > > my possession for the purpose of job, you are not permitted to > > make copies for your private use. > > > > If the license explicitly states so, yes. > > Wrong. You are not the licensee. The licensee is the company. > The license is completely irrelevant for you. > > You obviously didn't mean to write that in that form.
I meant to write exactly what I did. Somebody who admits to being incapable of grasping the concept of "internal use" should not go reinterpreting the words of someone else. > If the license isn't relevant to me, then the whole discussion is > quite pointless. :-) Wrong. The whole point of "internal use" is that the license is not relevant to a company employee. > The license obviously does apply to me. Otherwise one could simple > do what the heck one wants. Oh sure. Like you can just take a car and drive it away when its purchase contract does not apply to you. You are completely confused. _Without_ a license and _without_ properly acquired ownership of a copy (and acting on behalf of a company does not form a requisition of ownership for you), your rights are exactly squat. > But you have no license to do whatever you want with the content > if you just have a copy that is the property of the company you > are working for. > > Since I legally aquired the content, Look up "acquire" in a dictionary of law. You did no such thing if the software is work material of your company. You don't acquire a company car, and you don't acquire company software. > the license applies, and if the content contains GPLed software, I > am free to distribute it. As long as you are not living in a communistic state, company and worker property remain separate. Even if you are living in a communistic state, the unity is merely theoretical. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
