From owner-freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 26 04:16:48 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9426516A4CE for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:16:48 -0800 (PST) Received: from smtp.des.no (flood.des.no [217.116.83.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7520B43D2D for ; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 04:16:45 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@des.no) Received: by smtp.des.no (Pony Express, from userid 666) id 329945309; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:16:44 +0100 (CET) Received: from dwp.des.no (des.no [80.203.228.37]) by smtp.des.no (Pony Express) with ESMTP id 071E75308; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:16:34 +0100 (CET) Received: by dwp.des.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id 764C433C9C; Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:16:34 +0100 (CET) To: underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) References: <20040125195023.GA2469@online.fr> From: des@des.no (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 13:16:34 +0100 In-Reply-To: (Gary W. Swearingen's message of "Sun, 25 Jan 2004 21:24:12 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090024 (Oort Gnus v0.24) Emacs/21.3 (berkeley-unix) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.61 (1.212.2.1-2003-12-09-exp) on flood.des.no X-Spam-Level: ss X-Spam-Status: No, hits=2.6 required=5.0 tests=RCVD_IN_DYNABLOCK, RCVD_IN_SORBS autolearn=no version=2.61 cc: Rahul Siddharthan cc: chat@freebsd.org Subject: Re: New Open Source License: Single Supplier Open Source License X-BeenThere: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Non technical items related to the community List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2004 12:16:48 -0000 underway@comcast.net (Gary W. Swearingen) writes: > Rahul Siddharthan writes: > > You don't require its permission for that. If you legally have a copy > > of it, you can do what you like to it, just as if you legally > > purchased a book, you may scribble on its margins. > You are wrong. If you legally have a copy of it, you can do what you > agreed to do with it, else you've violated your copyright license > agreement to copy, derive, and/or and publish. No. The right to modify etc. that the law grants you cannot be repealed by the license; if the license says you can't modify or reverse-engineer the software (for your own use), the license is wrong and unenforceable. Likewise if it says you can't publish reviews or benchmarks without the author's permission. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@des.no