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Authored by: PJ on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 11:42 AM EDT |
I can't believe you are still on this. You
never learn. For others, first sale applies
to sales. It doesn't apply to licensed
products, as Psystar found out when it
tried to apply this person's theory to
Apple.
The GPL is a license, which applies to
whoever receives the software, whether
they buy it or license it. You can resell
your one CD, because the CD is yours. But
you can't copy it and sell copies on and on
and on. And the sale doesn't remove the
license. If those Thai books had been
licensed goods, the outcome would have
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Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, March 20 2013 @ 12:08 PM EDT |
Moglen has certainly never said that.
Of course, as P.J. pointed out,
you can't make more copies - "first sale" is not a grant to make more copies of
the work you got - without relying on the permissions of the GPL. First sale
only allows you to sell the Legal copy you got.
And you can't make a
derivative work - you're stepping outside the boundries of first sale again. So
you need to - again - rely on the permissions of the GPL.
So.... it's
rather puzzling who you're arguing against when no one that uses the GPL
disputes the sale of the copy.
RAS[ Reply to This | Parent | # ]
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