a "backup *nudge nudge wink wink*".
An analogous provision exists in U.S. law, indeed in the same chapter
cited above. It also covers copies made in the course of repairing a
computer.
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tute *exempting* the running
of software (and the making of backups) from copyright protection. That
is, copyright does *not* grant the holder the right to restrain users
from executing a copy of software that they have legally obtained.
http://www.copyright.gov/title17/92chap1.html#117
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alone.
Of course, if your customer is a proprietary software firm looking to
own and sell the software restrictively, then they don't want those
terms. But if they're just looking to use it privately and internally,
I'm curious how the GPL would get in the way of that.
on, there do exist at least some Perl-compatible regex
libraries in other non-Perl languages, which don't use libpcre.
An example is CL-PPCRE (http://www.weitz.de/cl-ppcre/), which claims to
be "more compatible with the regex semantics of Perl 5.8.0 than, say,
Perl 5.6.1 is."
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