Author: Uri Blass
Date: 03:03:41 12/13/02
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On December 12, 2002 at 13:23:02, Mike Hood wrote: >On December 12, 2002 at 12:03:25, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: > >>On December 12, 2002 at 10:22:34, José Carlos wrote: >> >>>On December 12, 2002 at 06:35:44, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>> >>>>On December 11, 2002 at 19:34:29, Mike Hood wrote: >>>> >>>>>I'm not a lawyer, so please don't ask me if it's legal for someone who >>>>>downloaded a free copy to share it with his friends. >>>> >>>>It isn't. You may have downloaded it for free in the past, the >>>>original author still owns the copyright and probably did not give >>>>you the right to redistribute it. >>>> >>>>-- >>>>GCP >>> >>> That sounds logical for material things, but not for software. If I send a >>>copy to a friend, how could possibly be proved that he didn't download it when >>>it was available? >> >>Not being able to prove guilt is not the same as innocense. >> >>-- >>GCP > >Yes, we're talking about two different matters here. The first is "being guilty" >and the second is "being found guilty". If I give my friend a copy of Goliath >Light I am presumably guilty of a crime. But since "everyone is innocent until >proven guilty", my friend could claim that he downloaded the engine himself, and >it would be difficult to prove my guilt. Unless, of course, my friend cracks >under interrogation..... I am not sure about the law because I am not a lawyer but if there is a law that say that you are quilty for giving a friend a copy of little goliath then this law seems to be against justice. When a programmer decides to do his program freeware then it means that he gives the program as a gift to all the world and justice tells me that he has no right to decide that it stops to be a gift and it is a gift only for people who downloaded the gift. If the programmer means that people who download the program should not send it to friend then he should ask the user to sign some paper when the user promise not to send it to a friend. Uri
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