Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4

Michael Poole [off-list ref] writes:

British courts, for instance, have held that copying a program into
RAM for the purposes of executing it is a right reserved under
copyright law.  In the US, 17 USC 117(c) and (d) were added after a
court held (in MAI Sys. Corp. v. Peak Computer) that a computer repair
company violated copyright of software that automatically started on a
computer it was asked to repair -- by simply allowing the computer to
boot and execute that program automatically.

As the GPL itself notes, you are not required to accept it, but
nothing else grants you the right to perform actions reserved to
copyright holders with respect to the work.

I think that most countries will grant some right to the purchaser of a
physical copy of copyrighted material.  For example, I doubt there are
countries where it is prohibited to read a book you have bought (via a
channel authorized by the copyright holder) when it contains no explicit
license granting you the right to read it.

-- 
David Kastrup