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Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License

Subject: Re: Protecting Software w/ Software License
From: Dan Sugalski <email@hidden>
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2002 20:28:16 -0400

At 1:28 PM -0700 6/24/02, Michael Gersten wrote:

Consider this idea: Every user of free software has a pirated, unpaid for copy.
They want their software to be heavily pirated. Probably the most successfully pirated author is Larry Wall. (Fn 2)

Umm.... no. No software that Larry's written has been pirated. To pirate software one must use it in a way contraindicated by the license agreement. If the software's been given away for free, and you follow the license, then you're not pirating it.
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Dan

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