From: "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com>
To: <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: RE: [future of drivers?] a proposal for binary drivers.
Date: Thu, 9 Mar 2006 14:12:02 -0800
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> "David Schwartz" <davids@webmaster.com> 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).

	Why would you say "No" and then write something that 100% agrees with me?

	DS


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