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From: "Ben A L Jemmett" <bal.jemmett@ukonline.co.uk>
Subject: Re: the ultimate IF archive
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"Kodrik" <kodrik@zc8.net> wrote in message
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> Well, Suse could distribute the eecutable because it has been  freely
> downloadable.

I haven't looked at the download in question, but I doubt it.  The license
probably states that only owners of a nVidia product can download the
software, just as only owners of Creative CD-ROM drives can download the
Creative IDE CD-ROM driver for DOS, or only owners of LG CD-RW drives can
use a copy of Roxio Easy CD Creator that shipped with an LG CD-RW drive.

> That's a good example. If you buy the wall street journal, you can resell
> it. So if you download CNN's freely available content, you shoud be able
to
> post it as long as you don't misrepresent it.

Where does misrepresentation come into it?  We're talking about *copyright*,
damn it, which is simply the right to copy and to control the distribution
of a literary, musical or artistic work, granted to the author, composer,
etc. for a certain period of time.

> But like you, I lean towards "you can't" since articles, videos and
> pictures do have special laws granting them privileges other products do
> not have.

No they don't.  They're a literary, musical or artistic work, just as IF is,
just as software is.

> There exist many compilation of sharewares and freewares on CD for sale
> with 1,000s of those programs on it.
> Exactly like IF files, they are available to the general public and
contain
> licenses similar to the ones you have to prevent this from happening.

No they don't, dipshit.  They have licenses *encouraging* redistribution,
because they're *share*ware.  A full license is only granted to those who
register.  Freeware doesn't even require that.  Software which is free is
not freeware.  The masses of freely-downloadable and redistributable GPL
software is *not* freeware.  If you want, you can check that with the
lawyers of Lineo, Inc. (formerly Caldera, Inc.), who released the code to a
project I now work on under the GPL.  I can give you the address of our
liaison with Lineo, and he can explain to you what will happen if you try
selling that code to anyone.

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Regards,
Ben A L Jemmett.
(http://web.ukonline.co.uk/ben.jemmett/, http://www.deltasoft.com/)


