video cards

[Luke -Jr]

On Thursday 03 April 2008, Bradley Hook wrote:
> As you point out, the legality of copyright actions is based on
> permission of the author, and since the author has given implied
> permission, the act becomes legal.

*One* author/copyright holder has expressed permission. Countless others have 
not, and some have even taken technical-level steps toward trying to prevent 
it (eg, the patch to make Linux refuse to load incompatibly licensed 
modules).

Also, non-enforcement does not count as "implied permission" in regard to 
copyrights, only trademarks (and then the trademark is lost entirely).