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It's not as restrictive as you're reading it. This bit is fairly permissive: > only as part of the lease, sale, or other transfer of all rights in the program.
by duskwuff 2y ago
It's not as restrictive as you're reading it. This bit is fairly permissive:
> only as part of the lease, sale, or other transfer of all rights in the program.
It's basically saying that users are allowed to make personal copies of a digital work, but they aren't allowed to sell or loan out those copies separately from the original. For example, if you bought a game on floppy disk, you can make backup copies of the disk it came on, but you can't make "backups" for your friends to play while you keep the original, or sell your copy of the game while keeping a backup for yourself. This seems entirely reasonable to me.
- idle_zealot 2y agoIt's reasonable until you consider digital media that you didn't buy on physical media. Without that physical copy you get no resale rights.