Alexander Terekhov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > David Kastrup wrote: > [...] >> Anyway, you are aware that a software license does not govern a work, >> but a transaction transferring a particular copy? > > Software is literary work. A copyright licensee governs rights (modulo > limitations) regarding (protected elements in) work. One doesn't need > to be an owner of a copy in order to become a party to a copyright > license. > > One can reproduce works (and do other things reserved to copyright > owners like for example public performance) from brain's memory.
Copyright does not provide a license for doing so. The decisive factor here is _not_ the work, but rather the _copying_ process through the brains memory. As an example, in the software world, a "cleanroom process" is often employed where one team assembles a description of software, and another, different one, implements from that description. Copyright is granted for the output of a creative process, and for the resulting representation. If that cleanroom process happens to reproduce the same structures/algorithms/idioms by _chance_, then the _identical_ work is not restricted by copyright. So it is clear that copyright is, indeed, bound to actual copies of a work, copies that save time and work for a creative process leading to a unique expression. Even though these copies might happen through memory. >> That is the reason that the same software can be licensed under >> different licenses, > > More bullshit. Those are simply different contracts (offers) all > governing rights in the same work. Where is the contradiction? > A would-be licensee simply has a choice to become a party to any of > those license contracts that the work is licensed under. Uh no. I was not talking about multiple-license models where the licensee can freely choose. You can, for example, license the same software binary-only for a fixed price, GPL for a larger price, and BSD-licensed for an even larger price. Those are different products. There are a few outlets that do multiple licensings in similar style. -- 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
