Re: Legal status of software licences

2003-08-25 Thread Richard Braakman
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:38:38PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > If it is then I can imagine such scenario: There are much more interesting scenarios to imagine. Person A owns a computer. Person B installs a game on person A's computer, and happily clicks through the EULA. Person B is not an

Re: Legal status of software licences

2003-08-25 Thread Barak Pearlmutter
You hold the gun and I'll pull the trigger while wearing a blindfold, then neither of us will be convicted of murder. Won't work. The law is not a computer program. There's this thing called "intent." And "conspiracy", and "guilty as charged", and "punitive fines", and "jail" ... If C knows (o

Re: Legal status of software licences

2003-08-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 06:21:56PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:06:39 +0200 > Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Is C doing anything illegal in this case? > > > > No, C isn't, but A and B may well be doing illegal things, depending > > on the license. > > >

Re: Legal status of software licences

2003-08-25 Thread Giacomo A. Catenazzi
Aigars Mahinovs wrote: Hello all I am reading a document by OSDL, namely: http://www.osdl.org/docs/osdl_eben_moglen_position_paper.pdf On the third page I read that copyright doesn't limit use of the product. That the only legal barier to usage of comercial software is the click trough licen

Re: Legal status of software licences

2003-08-25 Thread Andrew Suffield
On Mon, Aug 25, 2003 at 05:38:38PM +0300, Aigars Mahinovs wrote: > Hello all > > I am reading a document by OSDL, namely: > http://www.osdl.org/docs/osdl_eben_moglen_position_paper.pdf > > On the third page I read that copyright doesn't limit use of the > product. That the only legal barier to us

Re: Legal status of software licences

2003-08-25 Thread Aigars Mahinovs
On Mon, 25 Aug 2003 17:06:39 +0200 Wouter Verhelst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Is C doing anything illegal in this case? > > No, C isn't, but A and B may well be doing illegal things, depending > on the license. > > IANAL, though; I could be wrong. Well, we can take a bunch of A's and B's and

Re: Legal status of software licences

2003-08-25 Thread Wouter Verhelst
Op ma 25-08-2003, om 16:38 schreef Aigars Mahinovs: > Hello all > > I am reading a document by OSDL, namely: > http://www.osdl.org/docs/osdl_eben_moglen_position_paper.pdf > > On the third page I read that copyright doesn't limit use of the > product. That the only legal barier to usage of comerc