Re: [libusb] QNX support

[Kustaa N. <Kus...@pl...>]

On 12/07/2016 21:39, "Tim Roberts" <ti...@pr...> wrote:

>Licensing and copyrighting are not the same thing.


That is correct.

However, at least I, was not discussing that.

The original point was that the premise was that a QNX was legally installed
into a computer and the question was that weather moving that computer from one physical
location to an other, and allowing libusb organisation (what ever if
anything that is) to use it was 'legal'.


>When you download
>and install Qt, you are required to agree to a license agreement.  That
>agreement limits your activities to a much greater degree than simple
>copyright.

If the licensing agreement is enforceable and legal which depends of course
on the terms and in which jurisdiction it is enforced.

For example from here:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

"In the case UsedSoftv Oracle, the European Court of Justice
 ruled that the sale of a software product, either through a physical support or download,
constituted a transfer of ownership in EU law, thus the first sale doctrine applies;
the ruling thereby breaks the "licensed, not sold" legal theory, but leaves open numerous questions."

We (as we the people) should not be too willing to accept what the software industry says and
their grabbing of copyright law to their own purposes for which it was never
invented and intended.


wbr Kusti



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