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Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

Posted Jun 7, 2012 13:26 UTC (Thu) by slashdot (guest, #22014)
In reply to: Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice by Richard_J_Neill
Parent article: Relicensing and rebasing LibreOffice

I think that copyright law makes illegal the act of distributing code without a license, and perhaps the act of receiving that distribution or enticing that distribution (i.e. starting a download) in some jurisdictions.

I don't think the law is concerned with you merely owning a copy of some copyrighted work, except as proof that the above actions took place.

Of course if you signed a contract as part of receiving the copyrighted work, then you would be bound by it in your actions relative to the received copyrighted work.

IANAL though.


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