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Isaac wrote:
> I think it highly unlikely that ownership of the machine makes no
> difference.   Surely for example a TiVO owner has to be given or offered
> the sources for any inclded GPL'd code, but it seems unlikely that
> everyone who used the TiVO including someone you allowed to house-sit in
> your absence would have the same claim.

So, if I lend you my house for a day, the code in my TiVo hasn't been
distributed.  What if I lend you my TiVo for a day?  What if I lend you my
TiVo for a year?  What if I rent you my TiVo for a day, year?  What if I rent
you a TiVo until a new version comes out, and then I rent you that one?

Lending and rental is clearly "distribution" under copyright law, as indicated
by the definition of "Publication" as "*distribution* of copies or
phonorecords of a work to the public by sale or other transfer of ownership,
or *by rental, lease, or lending*" [emphesis added].

Private distribution is not publication (because it is not "to the public,"
but it is still distribution.