From: Michael Poole <mdpoole-IZmAEv5cUt1AfugRpC6u6w@public•gmane.org>
To: David Kastrup <dak-mXXj517/zsQ@public•gmane.org>
Cc: git-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public•gmane.org,
msysgit-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public•gmane.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 11:02:44 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87sl0469gb.fsf@graviton.dyn.troilus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <86tzkksuua.fsf-Gv3ZRPJT63HkqtzbHXq1RqVXKuFTiq87@public.gmane.org> (David Kastrup's message of "Thu\, 07 Feb 2008 15\:29\:49 +0100")
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.]
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-07 16:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-02 4:34 [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 Junio C Hamano
2008-02-02 9:25 ` Junichi Uekawa
2008-02-02 15:58 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-03 1:00 ` Junichi Uekawa
2008-02-03 2:14 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-03 3:16 ` Junichi Uekawa
2008-02-03 3:24 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-03 3:51 ` Junichi Uekawa
2008-02-03 5:32 ` Christian Couder
2008-02-03 10:50 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-03 10:38 ` Pierre Habouzit
2008-02-03 12:56 ` Theodore Tso
2008-02-03 15:08 ` Matthieu Moy
2008-02-03 15:34 ` [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 (git popularity) Jakub Narebski
2008-02-03 19:27 ` [ANNOUNCE] GIT 1.5.4 Theodore Tso
2008-02-04 20:35 ` Jari Aalto
2008-02-02 9:45 ` しらいしななこ
2008-02-02 12:11 ` Wincent Colaiuta
2008-02-02 22:42 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-02-07 12:31 ` Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 12:55 ` [msysGit] " Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-07 13:07 ` Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 13:28 ` Johannes Schindelin
2008-02-07 13:43 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802071324460.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 13:53 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-02-07 17:30 ` Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <7v1w7ooes3.fsf-jO8aZxhGsIagbBziECNbOZn29agUkmeCHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 18:40 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802071831520.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 18:59 ` Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 19:08 ` [msysGit] " Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802071906120.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 21:02 ` Jeremy Maitin-Shepard
2008-02-07 19:42 ` [msysGit] " Junio C Hamano
[not found] ` <7vprv8mu2k.fsf-jO8aZxhGsIagbBziECNbOZn29agUkmeCHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802071157360.2896-5CScLwifNT1QetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 20:58 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-02-08 1:53 ` [msysGit] " Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802080143440.11591-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-08 9:22 ` Schuberth, Sebastian
[not found] ` <E6DFE65BB5ADFE44BE13CCC976124447D5BCC8-xoGCv1uRt2M6PgvdBIHKsVaTQe2KTcn/@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-08 11:14 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-02-07 20:23 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-02-07 21:49 ` [msysGit] " Jonathan del Strother
[not found] ` <57518fd10802071349w50446803q249cbda0e2998bc5-JsoAwUIsXosN+BqQ9rBEUg@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 22:18 ` Dmitry Potapov
[not found] ` <20080207221837.GQ30368-EQL4cN526mwi5CQI31g/s0B+6BGkLq7r@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 22:48 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-02-07 22:46 ` Jari Aalto
[not found] ` <20080207130715.GA14000-oEplIgxCSygGFt9iVWuREaMaJEuR8uiQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 14:53 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-07 15:59 ` [msysGit] " Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 16:12 ` Jakub Narebski
2008-02-07 16:21 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <20080207155946.GA20459-oEplIgxCSygGFt9iVWuREaMaJEuR8uiQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 16:35 ` Nicolas Pitre
2008-02-07 16:41 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802071133230.2732-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 16:53 ` Johannes Schindelin
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802071651440.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 18:55 ` Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 18:52 ` [msysGit] " Luciano Rocha
2008-02-07 17:01 ` Steffen Prohaska
2008-02-07 17:15 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <alpine.LFD.1.00.0802070949460.2732-QuJgVwGFrdf/9pzu0YdTqQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-09 9:25 ` Andreas Ericsson
[not found] ` <alpine.LSU.1.00.0802071255110.8543-OGWIkrnhIhzN0uC3ymp8PA@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 13:23 ` Eyvind Bernhardsen
2008-02-07 13:25 ` [msysGit] " David Kastrup
[not found] ` <86k5lguce2.fsf-Gv3ZRPJT63HkqtzbHXq1RqVXKuFTiq87@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 14:04 ` Michael Poole
2008-02-07 14:29 ` David Kastrup
[not found] ` <86tzkksuua.fsf-Gv3ZRPJT63HkqtzbHXq1RqVXKuFTiq87@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 16:02 ` Michael Poole [this message]
2008-02-07 16:13 ` David Kastrup
2008-02-07 18:10 ` [msysGit] " Jari Aalto
[not found] ` <20080207123108.GA12009-oEplIgxCSygGFt9iVWuREaMaJEuR8uiQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-02-07 19:58 ` Dmitry Potapov
2008-02-03 17:55 ` Dmitry Potapov
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