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From: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: v11INF3:  Poll on copyrights
Message-ID: <7418@oliveb.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 23:18:57 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 23:18:57 1987
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Reply-To: jerry@oliveb.UUCP (Jerry Aguirre)
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In article <208@PT.CS.CMU.EDU> ralf@B.GP.CS.CMU.EDU (Ralf Brown) writes:
>The way I understand copyright laws, you may do anything you want with a
>*legally* acquired program, provided that you *do not redistribute* any
>modifications without permission from the copyright holder.  Of course,
>most license agreements prevent you from loading the program into memory :-)

Could we lay this one to rest.  As I recall there is a provision in the
copyright law about "normal and intended use" which allows for the load
(copy) of a program into memory for execution.  Remember that "copy", in
this usage, is a legal term, not the simple meaning that the dictionary
gives.

I mean you might as well say that I can't read a book because the image
of the page gets projected onto my retina in the same way that a copy
machine (can't say Xerox here can I) makes a copy.

Can somebody with the actual text post it and end this myth?

					Jerry Aguirre