"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > A company employee is not free to do whatever he wants with company > property (such as a software CD) that he needs for doing his job. > > He is not the rightful owner. > > 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. > This is where our opinions differ I think. You just don't understand "internal use". That's all. > A tangible copy _is_ property, and getting company-internal access > to it does not grant you the rights connected with owning this > property: namely copying its contents. > > But the content isn't property! The _medium_ that the content resides > on is. 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. -- 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
