Rjack wrote:
You're starting to reason with all the clarity of a bottle of ink.
It's really very simple. If someone conveys to you a copy of a covered work (let's say it's via being shipped DVDs, because downloading confuses the issue of who's making the copy), under first sale you may then convey that copy to someone else without needing any license to do so. That means that you could convey the binary without the source if you have them on separate media, and the recipient would have no one from whom to demand the source. You could even set up a business of doing this, where you purchase piles of separate DVDs containing the binaries and the sources from the creators of the covered work, and then you sell the binary disks while discarding the source disks. But you cannot convey copies of covered works which you yourself have made unless you comply with the license. If all of this seems weird and confusing, it's because the law wasn't written for an age of ubiquitous and easy copying. The law is designed by use cases - it wants to have certain situations work in certain ways (such as being able to sell used books without needing permission), but then there are consequences in places unanticipated by the writers. _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
