Around 02:07pm on Wednesday, September 17, 2008 (UK time), Joel Rees scrawled: > > On Sep 16, 2008, at 11:55 PM, Steve Hill wrote: > > >On Tue, 16 Sep 2008, Joel Rees wrote: > > > >>If you do not agree to the GPL, you have no license at all, and > >>the only thing that allows you to use the software in any way is > >>fair use. Fair use does not necessarily cover running the software. > > > >Certainly not the case the world over. ISTR that UK copyright law > >has an exemption that basically says it won't prevent you doing > >whatever you need to do to use the product (e.g. installing the > >software on a hard drive, copying a database into RAM, etc). > > That would be, I'm assuming, that you have bought the product and > have some sort of license thereby to use it? > > Remember, in the case of GPL-ed software, we are not trafficking in > software in the usual sense. Yes I agree with this. IANAL, or an expert in licening or GNU, but AFAIK the GNU licence covers re-distribution, not running. In other words anyone can run in without having to agree to any conditions. But if you want to re-distribute it, or a deriviative of it, you do have to agreee to the conditions. Steve -- (o< www.stevesearle.com //\ Powered by Fedora V_/_ No MS products were used in the creation of this message 14:11:14 up 34 days, 2:33, 1 user, load average: 0.12, 0.04, 0.01
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