On May 18, 2004, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv(a)redhat.com> wrote:
On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 21:08, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> On May 18, 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra <rms(a)1407.org> wrote:
>
> > If this is true, then it should be considered a bug. I'll investigate
> > later...
>
> You're not required to accept the GNU GPL to run the code. The GNU
> GPL explicitly says that anything but copying, distribution and
> modification are outside of its scope, and that the act of running the
> program is not restricted.
Well in most of Europe, copying the binary code from disk to ram or
from
ram to CPU is distributing as explicit part of copyright law ;)
distributing? I could understand copying, but distributing?!?
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Alexandre Oliva
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