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From: Horne-Scott@cs.yale.edu (Scott Horne)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: The GNU Public License
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Date: 4 Aug 89 15:32:47 GMT
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In-reply-to: brad@looking.on.ca (Brad Templeton)

In article <3928@looking.on.ca>, brad@looking (Brad Templeton) writes:
> 
> 	Of course if you buy a program, you get the right to do
> 	this sort of copying, but they *can* restrict it, I suspect,
> 	to copying for the purpose of execution.

Not in the US.  Making one copy of a software package for archival purposes is
legal, even if it involves breaking a copy-protection scheme.

					--Scott

Scott Horne                     Undergraduate programmer, Yale CS Dept Facility
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