Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268646AbUJKCY4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:24:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268652AbUJKCY4 (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:24:56 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.229.2]:25243 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268646AbUJKCYy (ORCPT ); Sun, 10 Oct 2004 22:24:54 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: possible GPL violation by Free Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 04:24:39 +0200 Message-ID: References: <1097456379.27877.51.camel@frenchenigma> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 197.80-202-92.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:zMsCcWSAc4lCXLLULvMdkBozGMU= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 718 Lines: 14 "David Schwartz" writes: > In any event, it seems pretty obvious to me that renting a > physical medium that contains an encoded copyrighted work is a form of > distribution of that work. The operation of that physical device is as > much a derived work of the copyrighted work as the visual/audio > experience of seeing a play is a derived work of the script for the > play. Are you sure it's not a performance? -- M?ns Rullg?rd mru@mru.ath.cx - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/