the provide, license verbs

[Rick Moen]

Quoting Stephen C. North (north at research.att.com):

> Do you say the law prevents me from taking a legal copy of a copyrighted
> work, which is a program, and privately modifying that program for my own use?

John Cowan says yes:
  http://linuxmafia.com/~rick/faq/modifications
Dan Bernstein says no:
  http://cr.yp.to/softwarelaw.html

When you get that resolved, please let me know.

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