Johnny A. Solbu scripsit: > Then you are mistaken. The copy was licenced, not sold. If you did > buy it, then it would become your property, and no longer Redhat's > property.
That copy was my property and not Red Hat's. They were of course free to make other copies, as was I. Similarly, when I download a copy of some open-source software, that copy belongs to me, and I can do what I like with it. That doesn't mean I own the copy*right*, just the copy. > You would own it and could deny Redhat their use of it. I.e. If i > bougth your car, I could deny you your use of the car, but if I > licenced it, it would still be your car, but I got usage rights to it. Just so. My car is mine, and my copy of RHL is mine. But my copy of Windows is *not* mine, given the terms of the proprietary license. In principle Microsoft could revoke the license at any time, and I'd have to destroy the copy. If I sell you the computer, the Windows license does *not* go with it, nor do I retain it -- it evaporates. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [email protected] How they ever reached any conclusion at all is starkly unknowable to the human mind. --"Backstage Lensman", Randall Garrett _______________________________________________ License-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://projects.opensource.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/license-discuss
