Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > On Mon, Mar 20, 2006 at 03:50:54AM +0000, MJ Ray wrote: > > Adam McKenna <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > What's the difference? > > > > One has 'or' and the other has 'and'. > > Your lack of attention to detail is troubling. > > Thanks for pointing out the obvious with an obtuse, glib comment. I can see > you're interested in having an intelligent discussion.
You often seem to use sarcasm unmarked. I thought that was another example. I mean, it seems fairly obvious what the difference is! > The point was, if you're making copies for yourself, you only need to follow > the license terms with regard to yourself. Whether the license says "or" or > "and" in this case is irrelevant. Not really: if it said "and" it would be limited to certain cases. The "or" case gives us an obvious and troublesome example. > > > of copying). It says that you can't try to prevent the people you give > > > copies to from making further copies. > > > > No, the licence requires you 'not use technical measures to obstruct > > or control the reading or further copying of the copies you make or > > distribute.' It does not limit this to the people to whom you give > > copies. > > But if you haven't given the copies to anyone, you can't be trying to > obstruct or control the reading or further copying done by anyone except > yourself. It seems fairly obvious that other people may have access to a copy that I made without me distributing it to them, especially on multi-user systems like debian. > I understand what you're trying to say, but it's wrong. You are insisting > on a basically insane literal interpretation of the license. Good way to show interest in intelligent discussion(!) For an encore, will you compare me to Hitler? I consider my interpretation far saner than inserting random extra unwritten limits into the licence, such as excluding non-distributed copies. If you showed references to support ignoring whole rafts of English copyright law, I'd be more respectful of your arguments and wild claims. Best wishes, -- MJR/slef My Opinion Only: see http://people.debian.org/~mjr/ Please follow http://www.uk.debian.org/MailingLists/#codeofconduct -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
