Corel: No "internal" exemption in GPL

Wed Sep 22 16:37:19 UTC 1999

[analogy snipped]

> If you would consider that to be distribution of the book, then why 
> wouldn't you consider the situation to be the same with software?
> 

Software licenses (often) grant rights to perform actions which
would not be permitted by copyright law.  You cannot "reason" by
analogy as in your example.

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