Article: 52981 of sci.geo.satellite-nav
From: "Bill Bradshaw" <bradshaw@arctic.net>
Newsgroups: sci.geo.satellite-nav
Subject: Re: Selectively following software licenses.
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 2002 11:37:17 -0900
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Agree.  I do not see any difference between this and my taking a copyrighted
paper map and adding my own written comments, lines, notations, etc. to it.

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<Bill>

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"Wayne R." <wruffner@KomKast.net> wrote in message
news:r2akuu8vktui7kp19s4co1h1k43m4fuhhl@4ax.com...
> It's much less onerous to ignore license details if there's no
> apparent loss of income to the licensor.
>
> What's the rationale for lawyers to care if a paying customer modifies
> some data for his own purposes? Who loses? Why should we care?
>
> Perhaps if customers were let in on the secrets of why this is a bad
> thing, we'd care.