Jim Henderson wrote:
> That's ultimately the question though - did you buy it, or did you buy a 
> license that says you can use it?

Yes. And does the license specifically deny me the ability to patch the 
software to run it on a different OS?   If you're going to argue you only 
licensed it to me and that copyright fair use shouldn't apply, you don't get 
to argue that it's copyrighted too. :-)  *Everything* has to be in the license.

> Could be.  Of course, if it's illegal to distribute the software, that 
> makes it kinda hard to obtain legally to use on media you legally own.

Not if you wrote it. Also, it depends on what's "software". Remember the 
whole PGP-printed-in-a-book argument? DeCSS printed on t-shirts?

> I'm getting out of my depth here, but it seems to me that federal law 
> would have *something* about contracts in it.

I don't think the Constitution says anything about intrastate contracts. Of 
course, not being in the Constitution never stopped anyone before. At least 
not lately.

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   Darren New, San Diego CA, USA (PST)
   There's no CD like OCD, there's no CD I knoooow!

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