Re: [OS:N:] Re: Questionaire about the support of students rights and the freedom in the learning environment

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 08:59, James Michael DuPont wrote:
> 
> --- Johnnie Peters <[email protected]> wrote:
> > What rights do you want as a student?  Maybe if you listed them we
> > could
> > address them directly.  So far everything I have heard has more to do
> > with wants than rights.
> 
> As a us citizen you are covered by copyright law, that gives you the
> rights to view the data files with your software of choice. 

O.K.  So you can view the files.  That does not mean I have to give your
the format.  Interpreting the format is the point of the software used
to read it.  All else is reverse engineering.

Now I may require you to sign a contract to not reverse engineer it if
you purchase my product.  Then it is not longer covered under copyright
law.  It is covered under contract law.  Big difference.

Johnnie




_______________________________________________
Subscription and Archive: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/open-source-now-list/
-
For K12OS technical help join K12OSN:
<https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/k12osn>