Re: Licensing question about the BSD

[David Kastrup]

John Hasler <john@dhh.gt.org> writes:

> I wrote:
>> In the US that is not a grant of the GPL. Copyright law explicitly
>> gives you the right to run any program you own a copy of.
>
> David Kastrup writes:
>> Where "own" means "lawfully acquired in an exchange of consideration from
>> somebody with the right to offer the software".
>
> I think you are confounding first sale with § 117.

"Sale".

>> Copyright law does not give you the right to run programs you have
>> stolen off a truck...
>
> In that case you do not own them.  You merely possess them.
>
>> ...or obtained by [cr]acking into a server.
>
> In that case you do own the physical copies

Wrong.  You own the media, not the content.

> and may have a right to run them,

How would you have acquired that?

> but when the copyright owner sues you the court will order
> destruction of your copies

Because of the content to which you have no claim of ownership.


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