wrf@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (W. Randolph Franklin) (01/22/86)
1. There is hope that the restrictive licenses on SW might be liberalized since some such attempted restrictions in the past have died. e.g. I have a GE car battery charger from about the 20s that contains a vacuum tube rectifier. The charger's nameplate says that this tube is being sold to be used in this device, and that it is not licensed to be used in a radio transmitter. (Maybe ham operators would rebuild chargers into radios and GE didn't like it ???) I haven't heard of people lately being busted for recycling something's components. 2. On the other hand, a textbook publisher's rep I met was complaining about the unfairness (to the author) of students being able to sell their books to someone else to reuse the next year. Can you see SW style licenses on books next? Wm. Randolph Franklin, UC Berkeley, Arpanet: wrf@ernie.Berkeley.EDU USPS: Computer Science Div., 543 Evans, University of California, Berkeley CA, 94720, USA 415-642-9955 Wm. Randolph Franklin, UC Berkeley, Arpanet: wrf@ernie.Berkeley.EDU USPS: Computer Science Div., 543 Evans, University of California, Berkeley CA, 94720, USA 415-642-9955
dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) (01/24/86)
In article <11493@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> wrf@ernie.BERKELEY.EDU (W. Randolph Franklin) writes: >2. On the other hand, a textbook publisher's rep I met was complaining >about the unfairness (to the author) of students being able to sell >their books to someone else to reuse the next year. Can you see SW >style licenses on books next? Walk up to that publisher's rep for me, and with all your might shout in his ear, "GIMME A BREAAAAAAK!" I can just see public libraries getting sued because they buy one copy and lend it out to hundreds of people. ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Kirby ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)
ron@brl-smoke.ARPA (Ron Natalie <ron>) (01/28/86)
> 1. There is hope that the restrictive licenses on SW might be > liberalized since some such attempted restrictions in the past have > died. e.g. I have a GE car battery charger from about the 20s that > contains a vacuum tube rectifier. The charger's nameplate says that > this tube is being sold to be used in this device, and that it is not > licensed to be used in a radio transmitter. (Maybe ham operators would > rebuild chargers into radios and GE didn't like it ???) I haven't heard > of people lately being busted for recycling something's components. > If it were today I would expect it was because of product liability. I noticed that nearly everything I get from National Semiconducter requires permission of NSC before it is used in any life supporting appuratus. -Ron
hes@ncsu.UUCP (01/30/86)
I heard that there have been suits against lending libraries which lent out copyrighted materials, and that the libraries ended up winning. This is one of the precedents for allowing the sequential (not simultaneous) multiple use of copyrighted software. --henry schaffer