Ben Finney wrote: > The answer depends on whether Dreamhost are, under the relevant > jurisdiction, distributing the modified work to you. It could be > argued that they are not: they are merely using the modified work, and > allowing you to access a machine they own; thus, the modified work is > not distributed to you, so no obligation is triggered to give you > access to the corresponding source.
This is actually a very intriguing question. If I have a shell account on someone's computer, and I can copy a binary that resides somewhere in /bin (or wherever), is the work being distributed to me? toad:~> ls -l /bin/ls -r-xr-xr-x 1 root wheel 29624 Jan 15 04:30 /bin/ls* toad:~> cp /bin/ls myls toad:~> Can I now demand the source to /bin/ls from the administrators of 'toad'? Probably it's more in the "making available" category of copyright infringement. Arnoud -- Arnoud Engelfriet, Dutch & European patent attorney - Speaking only for myself Patents, copyright and IPR explained for techies: http://www.iusmentis.com/ Arnoud blogt nu ook: http://blog.iusmentis.com/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
