Re:I bought a CD, not a licensing agreement
by blasdel on Wednesday September 02, 2009 @07:59PM
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And those licenses, like all elective copyright licenses are specific (and usually conditional) waivers to some of the rights afforded automatically by post-Berne copyright law.
Even the most draconian shrinkwrap EULAs will specifically grant the licensee the right to install (copy!) the software onto a filesystem of their own, and allow for an operating system to read (copy!) the work into memory and page (copy!) it back to disk in normal operation.
Even the most draconian shrinkwrap EULAs will specifically grant the licensee the right to install (copy!) the software onto a filesystem of their own, and allow for an operating system to read (copy!) the work into memory and page (copy!) it back to disk in normal operation.