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Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code
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David Kastrup |
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Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code |
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18 Jun 2004 16:02:35 +0200 |
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hollaar@faith.cs.utah.edu (Lee Hollaar) writes:
> In article <x5wu25ouhr.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
> >First sale applies if there is a sale. It doesn't if there isn't.
> >Copyright defines the minimum set of rights that can be _sold_ to you.
> >It does not apply to items to which you have no right in the first
> >place, but to which you are unilaterally granted a conditional license
> >to use and redistribute, without any exchange of consideration from
> >your side.
>
> Wrong, wrong, wrong, at least under United States copyright law.
>
> "First sale" is just a shorthand for the judicially-created doctrine
> that is now codified in 17 USC 109. It does not require a "sale"
> but applies to anyone who is "the owner of a particular copy or
> phonorecord lawfully made under this title".
What about "made under this title" don't you understand?
> I can become the lawful owner of a copy by gift or similar things
> that are not a sale.
Which then is not obtained "under this title".
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, (continued)
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Lee Hollaar, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, David Kastrup, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Lee Hollaar, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, David Kastrup, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Lee Hollaar, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Ernest Schaal, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, David Kastrup, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Lee Hollaar, 2004/06/29
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- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Lee Hollaar, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, David Kastrup, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, David Kastrup, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Alexander Terekhov, 2004/06/29
- Re: The worst that can happen to GPLed code, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2004/06/29