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Subject: Re: Linux GPL and binary module exception clause?
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> So copies to disk and RAM that are "an essential step in the utilization of 
> the computer program" are non-infringing.

probably true for the US, most definitely not true in europe... it's
explicit in law here that copying from disk-to-ram and ram-to-cpu is
distributing in the "need a license" sense...