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Correct. And that's almost universally true for any software program and operating system you didn't personally write. You don't "own" any software on your comp
by sjwright 7y ago
Correct. And that's almost universally true for any software program and operating system you didn't personally write. You don't "own" any software on your computer, including your favourite Linux & GNU distribution. You agree to a license which almost always places certain restrictions on what you can do with the software.
- ForHackernews 7y agoThis is not necessarily the case: http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/license_free.html http://thedjbway.b0llix.net/license_free.html http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html
- sjwright 7y agoSure, if you accept the feel-good corporatist double-speak that is "owning copies" of intellectual property.
- dahart 7y agoThere are restrictions on what you can do with almost all products, commercial and open source, e.g., see licenses, copyrights, moral right, trademarks, patents, trade secrets, etc. What do you want “own” to mean, exactly? What do you want to do with your software that you can’t do right now?