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On 17 Sep 99, at 5:15, Russ Allbery wrote:
> > Surely also, since you haven't accepted the 'new' contract you can still
> > (under basic copyright law) modify the software etc. and thus bypass the
> > bit that asks you to accept the new terms anyway.
>
> Basic copyright law, by my reading, does not grant you the right to modify
> software that you own, believe it or not. Please don't take my word for
> it; check it yourself. You can download a copy of the law from the
> Library of Congress copyright page.
And you said that the copyright law is the same all over the world:
The Czech copyright law explicitely permits to make modifications
for your own use, and even you're allowed to as much reverse
engineering as you need to keep the software doing what you
bought it for (my wording is inexact).
On the other hand, the Czech law assumes that a program is
essentially a book. Plus, it pretty much forbids free software by
stating that the author must be paid for the copyright...
But the bottom line is: The licence for qmail may or may not hold.
It's not as straightforward as many other licences are. There are
people who are distracted by that, and those people get to the front
pages on some respected sites (SecurityPortal).
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