Wanted - Long EZ and Q2 plans

In article , Todd Pattist
writes:


That you don't have a clue about what you are saying.

If you can't explain your point and can't provide any
support for it, you're not going to convince anyone.
Computer software is not subject to design patent
protection. Aircraft designs are. Software is not normally
provided to customers in human readable format (it's source
code). Aircraft building plans are human readable. Software
is freely transferrable to another user for reuse. You
allege that aircraft plans have contract language that
forbids this.


Wrong on all points.

I ask again why you think computer software shrink-wrap
licenses are similar to the contract language you say is
found on most aircraft plans.
Todd Pattist
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Go back and read the post that I responded to you lame brain idiot. I don't
have time to try to teach you what you clearly don't want to learn.


Bob Reed
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(Whatever) wrote in message
OK. I have a set of drawings for the Dyke Delta JD2. I did
not buy these plans, they were handed to me after the
purchaser died. Since I have no contract with the designer,
are you saying that I am free to copy and sell as many
prints as I feel like?

Scott McQ

The contract not to build more than one plane was between the plan
author and the deceased so you could use the plans for your own plane,
albeit without support. You could not copy and distribute them
legally speaking because of copyright however.

As tech people I think we often get caught up in the theoretical case,
but in the end, practice is what counts. When the cost of legal
pursuit is higher than the possible recovery then all these fancy laws
somehow seem to disappear into thin air.