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On Sun, 30 Jan 2000 20:07:54 -0800, Jeffrey B. Siegal <jbs@quiotix.com> wrote:
>Isaac wrote:
>> Exactly right.  Copyright law does give certain rights to people who own
>> copies of software.  Some of these are rights that publishers of
>> proprietary software don't want you to use.  But the concept of owning
>> rather than possessing copies of software are certainly supported by
>> law.
>
>You *can* own copies of software, the way you own a book, but you do not need
>to own a copy to use or have a license to use a copy.  Most software license
>agreements state that you do not own the software at all, it is simply made
>available for your use.
>
Most software licenses claim that you don't even own copies of the
software.  If they didn't claim this, they couldn't limit rights expressly 
granted by law to owners of copies.

Isaac