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Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed
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Robert Heller |
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Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed |
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Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:38:47 -0500 |
At Sat, 10 Oct 2009 18:26:05 +0200 Alexander Terekhov <terekhov@web.de> wrote:
>
>
> Robert Heeler wrote:
> [...]
> > I think that the point of the citizen.org case (eBay vender vs
> > Autodesk), is that if you have A copy in your possesion, you have the
> > right to dispose of that copy (eg selling it). This is distint from
> > *making a copy* of the copy.
>
> But don't you own a legitimate "GPL'd" copy (after making a copy of the
> copy pursuant to the GPI) just like in the former case, Heller?
READ THE REST OF MY POST!
If one has, for example, a shrink wrapped copy, never opened (and thus
never installed), it is perfectly legal to re-sell that copy. I
believe that was citizen.org's case. Once you install it (eg open the
box), then one 'has made a copy'. If you resell the box/CD/whatever,
someone ends up with a non-legal copy (assuming that the software in
question was not GPL or other open source, which was the case with the
eBay vender vs Autodesk case that citizen.org defended).
>
> regards,
> alexander.
>
> --
> http://gng.z505.com/index.htm
> (GNG is a derecursive recursive derecursion which pwns GNU since it can
> be infinitely looped as GNGNGNGNG...NGNGNG... and can be said backwards
> too, whereas GNU cannot.)
>
>
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- Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/10/10
- Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed, Nigel Feltham, 2009/10/11
- http://www.citizen.org/join/, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/10/10
- Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed, Robert Heller, 2009/10/10
- Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed, Alexander Terekhov, 2009/10/10
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