Re: Mecc titles

[wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Kragen Sitaker (kragen@dnaco.net) wrote:

: I am quite certain that American copyright law gives you the right to
: modify software; it does not prohibit modification of any copyrighted
: work.  (It would be a bad world if a publishing company could keep me
: from writing notes in the margin of a book I bought from them!)  What
: it restricts is the right to make copies, public performances, etc., of
: the copyrighted work -- modified or unmodified -- or works derived from
: it.

I believe that it was in an old SCO UNIX licence where I saw this one: they
expressly forbode any modification to the software manuals, including notes
in the margin, and said that software and manuals must be destroyed at the
termination of the licence agreement.  Outside of the notes in the margin
part, this seems to be fairly standard in software licences.

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