On 11/27/2012 09:03 AM, Petr Pisar wrote: > The licenses are missing a permission to execute the code. Does it mean > we cannot execute configure scripts? > > Is it bug in the license text? Or just an US---EU discrepancy? Should we > obtain clarification from FSF? The act of executing code is not "copying", "distribution", "modification/derivation", so it does not fall within the range of exclusive copyright rights that are limited to the copyright holder (and thus, necessary to be granted to others). It might tread into the very murky area of Moral Rights, although, I think that would be one hell of a stretch. You'd need to consult with a European lawyer if you wanted a more authoritarian answer on that, as the US generally doesn't consider Moral rights in the area of Copyright law. (There's pages and pages about how confusing this is...) In the United States, Section 117 of the Copyright Act gives the owner of a particular copy of software the explicit right to "utilize" the software with a computer, so it is not necessary for this permission to be explicitly granted. As usual, IANAL, this is not legal advice. It does however, reflect the position of the Fedora Project. ~tom == Fedora Project _______________________________________________ legal mailing list legal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/legal
