Restrictions for use

Restrictions for use

Posted Jan 20, 2006 1:54 UTC (Fri) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954)
In reply to: Restrictions for use by tzafrir
Parent article: GPLv3: a first look

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.

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