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Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed
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Rui Maciel |
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Re: US court says software is owned, not licensed |
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Sun, 11 Oct 2009 15:05:15 +0100 |
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Robert Heller wrote:
> 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.
No. If you sell your software license to some other 3rd party then you will
only end up with a non-legal copy
if you keep using the software without a license.
> 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).
It's irrelevant to this case if the license is or isn't the GPL.
Rui Maciel
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