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Re: GPL and other licences
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David Kastrup |
Subject: |
Re: GPL and other licences |
Date: |
Thu, 16 Feb 2006 00:31:49 +0100 |
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"Alfred M\. Szmidt" <ams@gnu.org> writes:
> > First, no third party (even the author of a GPLed work) can
> > give you permission to copy anything from a computer or medium
> > that is not your property.
> >
> > The owner of the computer/CD explcitly gave this permission by
> > giving access to the content. What part of the scenario do you
> > simply not understand?
>
> If I give some person the key to my apartment and ask him to fetch
> a book from there, that does not mean that he gets all rights that
> I as the owner of the apartment have. It does not give him
> permission to read my letters, even though the content of the
> letters is not tangible property.
>
> You still confuse "access" and "ownership". The owner is the
> licensee, nobody else.
>
> And you are confusing property with software.
What about "permission to read my letters" don't you understand? You
are being singularly disingenuous.
> If I take your book, you loose the book.
Who is talking about the book? We are talking about access to the
apartment, and perusal of letter contents.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- Re: GPL and other licences, (continued)
- Re: GPL and other licences, Graham Murray, 2006/02/15
- Re: GPL and other licences, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2006/02/15
- Re: GPL and other licences, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/02/15
- Re: GPL and other licences, Graham Murray, 2006/02/15
- Re: GPL and other licences, Stefaan A Eeckels, 2006/02/15
- Re: GPL and other licences, Alfred M. Szmidt, 2006/02/16
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