On Jun 20, 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Lennart Sorensen) wrote: > On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 06:12:57PM -0300, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> Aah, good question. Here's what the draft says about this: >> >> Mere interaction with a user through a computer network, with no >> transfer of a copy, is not conveying. >> >> The requirements as to "installation information" apply to conveying >> the program along with a user product.
> So if I go use a computer running some GPL software, and I copy the > contents of /bin to a CD and bring it home, does the owner of the > machine now owe me a copy of the GPL sources? According to one of the rationales of GPLv3, it is understood that lending someone a computer for a short period of time does not amount to conveying the software in it. I assume this is backed by strong legal reasoning I won't pretend to know or understand. IANAL. -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.lsd.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ FSF Latin America Board Member http://www.fsfla.org/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer [EMAIL PROTECTED], gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist [EMAIL PROTECTED], gnu.org} - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
