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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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