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Restrictions for use
Restrictions for use
Posted Jan 17, 2006 15:19 UTC (Tue) by tzafrir (subscriber, #11501)In reply to: Restrictions for use by xoddam
Parent article: GPLv3: a first look
If you get too technical, you'll also note that merely the act of disposing of the copyrighted material involves (oh no!) generating yet another temporary copy.
Not to mention that deleting a file does not actually remove its content from the storage. You can't tell exactly when nothing will be left of the content.
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Restrictions for use
Posted Jan 20, 2006 1:54 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]
I think it's still highly speculative that copying code from disk to memory requires a license from the copyright holder. I've heard of rulings like this, but they seem pretty ignorant and I don't think they will hold up.I compare this kind of copying to copying a book onto my retina so that I can read it (you cannot read a book in the traditional way without causing an image of each page to appear on your retina).
ISTR some distinction about copying into fixed form vs ephemeral form, and that could easily apply to a DRAM copy, and even to a disk cache copy or local filesystem copy.