David Kastrup wrote: [...] > You really should be more careful with dishing out insults. It makes > yourself look even more ridiculous.
One doesn't need a license to create and use private derivative works (adaptations) of GPL'd software. 17 USC 117. So what is your (and your fellow comrade GNUtian ams) point? "The conversion of a program from one higher-level language to another to facilitate use would fall within this right, as would the right to add features to the program that were not present at the time of rightful acquisition. These rights would necessarily be more private in nature than the right to load a program by copying it and could only be exercised so long as they did not harm the interests of the copyright proprietor. Unlike the exact copies authorized as described above, this right of adaptation could not be conveyed to others along with the licensed or owned program without the express authorization of the owner of the copyright in the original work. " -- http://digital-law-online.info/CONTU/contu6.html regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss