From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262366AbTENOpt (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 10:45:49 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262369AbTENOpt (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 10:45:49 -0400 Received: from smtp.bitmover.com ([192.132.92.12]:732 "EHLO smtp.bitmover.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262366AbTENOps (ORCPT ); Wed, 14 May 2003 10:45:48 -0400 Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 07:58:11 -0700 From: Larry McVoy To: "Richard B. Johnson" Cc: Dean McEwan , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED. Message-ID: <20030514145811.GA14439@work.bitmover.com> Mail-Followup-To: Larry McVoy , "Richard B. Johnson" , Dean McEwan , alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20030514135256.26073.qmail@linuxmail.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4i X-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (score=0.5, required 4.5, DATE_IN_PAST_06_12) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 10:36:43AM -0400, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Basically, in many states in the USA, you can't sell or > lease something that will become worthless or unusable if > the seller or leasor no longer exists. CAD software is mostly leased these days. That would seem to contradict your position. Can you quote some laws which say that leasing software is illegal? -- --- Larry McVoy lm at bitmover.com http://www.bitmover.com/lm