Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed

[Alexander Terekhov]

Nigel Feltham wrote:
[...]
> The only permission you have to make any extra copies of busybox is that
> provided by the GPL in exchange for following it's rules which specify that
> source has to be provided.

But that's pure license/contract breach claim, not copyright
infringement. Consider also 

http://www.citizen.org/litigation/forms/cases/CaseDetails.cfm?cID=437

"Public Citizen represents an eBay vendor in a case against Autodesk, a
California-based software company. ... Although Autodesk claims that its
shrink-wrap license prohibits resale of its products, Public Citizen
argues that the contract language is unlawful under the Copyright Act,
which guarantees that the owner of a copyrighted product can resell that
product without permission. "

Well, Public Citizen won! ;-) 

Oh, BTW,

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regards,
alexander.

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