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On 15 Sep 99, at 8:53, Fred Lindberg wrote:
> www.pobox.com/~djb/rights.html:
>
> "I don't know which of these theories will succeed in court. I also
> don't think you should have to care. So I promise I won't sue you for
> copyright violation for downloading documents from my server."
That's about something different: That's about some lame theory
which says that if you're requesting a document by http, you're
making a copy and you need authorization. I fail to see
daemontools-something.tar.gz as a document.
Anyway, for anal-retentive types, a promise "I won't sue you" put
somewhere on the web by someone claiming to be djb doesn't cut
it.
And yes, I'm being anal retentive now.
> www.pobox.com/~djb/softwarelaw.html:
>
> "Once you've legally downloaded a program, you can compile it. You can run
> it. You can modify it. You can distribute your patches for other people to
> use. If you think you need a license from the copyright holder, you've
> been bamboozled by Microsoft. As long as you're not distributing the
> software, you have nothing to worry about."
That may be the way the copyright law works in US - I don't know
what makes the legality of downloading a program - but that's
probably not how the law works in other countries. "Do you have a
licence? If not, stop using the program." Been there, heard that.
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