Re: Licence to view source code.

On Wed, 30 Apr 1997, Michael Lean <m.lean[_at_]qut.edu.au> wrote:
>
> Given that every browser I've ever used is so arranged that the
> source code (I assume you mean the underlying HTML which produces
> the web page) can be viewed with a couple of mouse clicks, one could
> assume that this is known to those who upload web pages, just as we
> assume that they know about caching on proxy servers and copies
> existing in RAM. Then, by analogy, isn't there an implied licence to
> view the source code?

Not necessarily. Every diskette I've used can be reproduced with a few keystrokes -- that doesn't imply the right to perform such a reproduction.

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