On 8/21/2019 7:33 PM, Lawrence Rosen wrote:
Russell, please clarify something for me about your opinion about
copyright policy: Is any license whatsoever required in order for a
private party to copy or modify a work of software, that it has
obtained somehow, for her own private purposes? Or, in your view, is
at least a minimal license required from the author to do those things?
I assume, at least in the US under current law, that software (source
code and binary) is copyrightable as a literary work. And therefore,
such a copyright is valid also under Berne, even in Canada, despite
your wish that software not be copyrightable for private use.
How can anyone avoid a license for private uses?
/Larry
Now I'm confused. Are you saying there is no "fair use" when the
target is software? While one can weaken"fair use" via the license, is
this a good idea for OSI to support this?
Roger Fujii
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