Re: [libusb] QNX support

[Steinar H. G. <sgu...@bi...>]

On Tue, Jul 12, 2016 at 08:13:27AM +0000, Kustaa Nyholm wrote:
> Distribution without copying is perfectly legal/allowed, think about
> selling books...

Only due to other provisions (such as the first-sale doctrine), not because
copyright doesn't cover distribution (because it does).

> Your computer is full of copyrighted stuff, yet it is perfectly legal to
> sell your computer.

No, it's not that simple. If I'm writing a magazine and the software is a
review copy, for instance, I can't sell the software on the computer.
If the software is my employer's internal software, I can't sell the computer
(even if my job contract doesn't stipulate this explicitly). If I warezed the
software and as such didn't have rights to it in the first place, I can't
sell the computer with the warezed software on. And so on.

It is true that most jurisdictions' copyright laws accept plain distribution
in most cases. This is, however, something else than copyright “not
applying”.

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