Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4

David Kastrup writes:

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.

I see two serious dis-analogies here:

How many users of msysgit purchase a physical copy of it?  (I suspect
this is a relevant difference in the US due to its commerce codes, and
maybe in other common law countries; it probably is not so important
in civil law countries, where exchange of consideration is not a
requirement to form a contract.)

Reading a literary work is typically not a reserved right, either;
while it seems good to treat executing a computer program in the same
way as reading a book, all copyright regimes that I know of give
consideration to the copy that is made to RAM for most computers.  (I
will ignore the implications for devices that have execute-in-place
non-volatile memory -- I am not a lawyer, and those devices are
probably too new to be addressed by courts yet.)

Michael Poole

[Also- The git list did not receive my previous mail and probably will
not receive this one either.  vger.kernel.org issues a bogus bounce,
shown in part below.  I apologize for hijacking the thread this way,
but mail to postmaster-at-vger bounces for the same reason.

Error in "rcvdfrom" envelope address:

	75.145.205-121-BusName-sterling.va.richmond.hfc.comcastbusiness.net!^Q
	^								    ^-illegal control character
	 \-Extraneous program text

.. where my mail host does not use that name for any reason; vger
seems to be doing a DNS PTR lookup, then mangling the response.]

Michael Poole [off-list ref] writes:

David Kastrup writes:

quoted

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.

I see two serious dis-analogies here:

How many users of msysgit purchase a physical copy of it?

"Acquire an authorized copy" is the relevant phrase here.  And that will
be the case for pretty much every user.

	75.145.205-121-BusName-sterling.va.richmond.hfc.comcastbusiness.net!^Q
	^								    ^-illegal control character
	 \-Extraneous program text

.. where my mail host does not use that name for any reason; vger
seems to be doing a DNS PTR lookup, then mangling the response.]

It may be that your version of Emacs is injecting C-d characters after
column 255 in a line.

-- 
David Kastrup