[License-discuss] For Public Comment: The Libre Source License

[Roger Fujii]

On 8/21/2019 7:33 PM, Lawrence Rosen wrote:
>
> Russell, please clarify something for me about your opinion about 
> copyright policy: Is any license whatsoever required in order for a 
> private party to copy or modify a work of software, that it has 
> obtained somehow, for her own private purposes? Or, in your view, is 
> at least a minimal license required from the author to do those things?
>
> I assume, at least in the US under current law, that software (source 
> code and binary) is copyrightable as a literary work. And therefore, 
> such a copyright is valid also under Berne, even in Canada, despite 
> your wish that software not be copyrightable for private use.
>
> How can anyone avoid a license for private uses?
>
> /Larry
>
Now I'm confused.    Are you saying there is no "fair use" when the 
target is software?   While one can weaken"fair use" via the license, is 
this a good idea for OSI to support this?

Roger Fujii

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