"Hyman Rosen" <hyro...@mail.com> wrote in message
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Rjack wrote:
How does an "over-the-air broadcast television program" relate
to an "over-the-internet computer program" licensed under a FOSS license?
Both of them are legally copied in a way which restricts
further distribution of the copies.
You seem to constantly miss the point of the decision by the District Court.
AutoCAD, too, tried to restrict the distribution of the copy. The copy was
purchased legally, presumably, since it had all the documentation with it
just as a copy of a GPL work might be obtained legally simply by downloading
from some source. The GPL makes no limitation to how the program may be
used. The GPL does try to restrict how the possessor of the copy passes it
to another in that it requires a copy of the source to accompany the
transfer or at least a way for the receiver to obtain a copy of the source.
That is more liberal than prohibition as tried by AutoCAD, but it is a
limiting condition nonetheless. The decision in court was that those
prohibitions do not apply due to doctrine of first sale. They don't apply
to the AutoCAD license and they don't apply to the GPL license. They don't
apply to Microsoft's licenses either. Until, of course the 9th Circuit sees
fit to say no to the idea.
Are over the air copies of a work restricted in some way from being given to
another?
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