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> No license can prevent you from making alterations to your private copy of a piece of software. The right to make alterations to someone else's intellectual
by joshuaissac 3y ago
> No license can prevent you from making alterations to your private copy of a piece of software.
The right to make alterations to someone else's intellectual property does not exist except as granted by licence or fair use exceptions.
- James_K 3y agoCopyright is about copying. For instance, if I buy a book, I cannot distribute copies of that book. But I can write whatever I want in the book, change any of the text in it, provided I don't then copy the modified text. They own the copyright to the intellectual property, not the physical item you are given or the bits in your computer's RAM, which you are free to do as you please with.