Messages in this thread | ![/](/images/icornerl.gif) | | Date | Wed, 14 May 2003 07:58:11 -0700 | From | Larry McVoy <> | Subject | Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED. |
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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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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