Re: Digital Rights Management - An idea (limited lease, renting, expiration, verification) NON HARWARE BASED.

Larry McVoy (lm@bitmover.com)
Wed, 14 May 2003 07:58:11 -0700

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/