On May 18, 2004, Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-18 at 21:08, Alexandre Oliva wrote: >> On May 18, 2004, Rui Miguel Seabra <rms@xxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> > If this is true, then it should be considered a bug. I'll investigate >> > later... >> >> You're not required to accept the GNU GPL to run the code. The GNU >> GPL explicitly says that anything but copying, distribution and >> modification are outside of its scope, and that the act of running the >> program is not restricted. > Well in most of Europe, copying the binary code from disk to ram or from > ram to CPU is distributing as explicit part of copyright law ;) distributing? I could understand copying, but distributing?!? -- Alexandre Oliva http://www.ic.unicamp.br/~oliva/ Red Hat Compiler Engineer aoliva@{redhat.com, gcc.gnu.org} Free Software Evangelist oliva@{lsd.ic.unicamp.br, gnu.org}
