Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751817AbWCILlO (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 06:41:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751831AbWCILlO (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 06:41:14 -0500 Received: from ping.uio.no ([129.240.78.2]:12216 "EHLO ping.uio.no") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751817AbWCILlN (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Mar 2006 06:41:13 -0500 To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: davids@webmaster.com Subject: Re: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers. References: <161717d50603080659t53462cd0k53969c0d33e06321@mail.gmail.com> From: ilmari@ilmari.org (=?utf-8?q?Dagfinn_Ilmari_Manns=C3=A5ker?=) Organization: Program-, Informasjons- og Nettverksteknologisk Gruppe, UiO Mail-Copies-To: nobody Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2006 12:41:08 +0100 In-Reply-To: (David Schwartz's message of "Wed, 8 Mar 2006 20:41:16 -0800") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Exiscan-Spam-Score: -7.8 (-------) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 865 Lines: 20 "David Schwartz" writes: > If the law allowed you to give your software away for free and > then put restrictions on use, you could drop copies of a poem from an > airplane (or put it up on a billboard) and then demand royalties from > everyone who read it. No. Copyright does not cover reading. It covers the distribution of copies (and derived works) of works. You could just fine drop copies of a poem from an airplain and then demand royalties from everoyone who distributes additional copies of it (copies they made, not the copies you dropped, cf. the doctrine of first sale). -- ilmari - 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/