"Bernd Jendrissek" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> David Kastrup <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >>The GPL can only give the owner of a copy rights. > > What if I, as a homeless vagrant scouring the city dump for cool > stuff, some across a three-year-old CD with a bunch of GNU packages > on it? > > I assume such a copy is legally acquired, even if the CD might have > originally been stolen by a burglar only to be discarded later.
What if you, as a homeless vagrant scouring the city dump for cool stuff, come across a cheque "to bearer"? Is that cheque legally acquired and can be cashed in by you? What if you, as a homeless vagrant scouring the city dump for cool stuff, come across the medical records of the town mayor? Are those records legally acquired and can be sold to the newspapers by you? -- 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
