Re: KDE v. Gnome

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From: Jason Clifford
Date: Mon, 05 Oct 1998 00:00

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In article <m31zoodpd3.fsf@obelix.wegge.dk>, Anders Wegge Jakobsen
<wegge@wegge.dk> writes
> You've read some pretty weak licenses then. Most, if not all, of
>those I've become aquainted with, has tried to remove my right to
>modify/debug/dechiper the given product. 

Remove your right? You never had any right to he software in the first
place. The licnese specifically grants you such rights as you may have.

>JC> The margins of a book are not a part of the copyright work. You
>JC> are free, if you choose to do so, to write to the media that
>JC> software is supplied upon which is exactly the same as making
>JC> notes on the margins of a book.
>
> Not quite. The margin notes in the book are in a form that is
>readablke by the same means and at the same time as the book is read,
>ie. used. The typical EULA tries to remove any such right of
>modifications, including such trivial changes as change hardcoded
>path settings with a hex-editor.

You are NOT entitles to make changes to the content of a book (ie. the
copyright material). Writing to the margins does not constitute such a
change. SImilarly you are free to write whatever you wish to the MEDIA
upon which software is distributed but not to the software unless
speciically permitted by the license
-- 
Jason Clifford

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From: Jason Clifford <jason@dlsl.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: KDE v. Gnome
Date: 1998/10/05
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