* Henning Makholm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [040602 16:42]: > If you want to *download* the sofware, then you'd better do it by the > GPL's terms. "Downloading" implies that you are instructing some > computer to make create a copy of the Work on your hard drive. Because > computers, legally speaking, do not *do* anything by themselves, *you* > are the one who are creating the copy on your hard drive. And creating > a copy is smack in the middle of the copyright holder's legal > monopoly.
If you log on some computer and make a copy there and transmit it to you (like ssh'ing into a solaris box and copying /bin/true), this may be true. But normally someone set up a computer do make a copy and sent it to me, if I request it. As when someone makes copies of a CD and sends them to me, when I send him a postcard. Now when I send a postcard somewhere, there those are scanned and when they are a printout of the request-formular, the CD is burned, copied the address field on an envelope and sends it out. Would I still be the one copying in your understanding of the situation? what if the form says: "might be processed without human intervention"? Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link -- Sendmail is like emacs: A nice operating system, but missing an editor and a MTA.
