Re: [OS:N:] Re: Questionaire about the support of students rights and the freedom in the learning environment
James Michael DuPont <[email protected]>
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--- Johnnie Peters <[email protected]> wrote: > 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. > Requiring the student to sign away rights that he has in the natural state which remove his rights to use free software should be denouced when it is done by companies supposedly supporting free software, and when done my tax funded course. I dont want my tax money to be spent on selling the students basic rights to greedy and mistrustful corporations. mike ===== James Michael DuPont http://introspector.sourceforge.net/ __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ 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>