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- From: jhelling@cs.ruu.nl (Jeroen Hellingman)
- Subject: Re: Licence Transfers... who gives a damn?
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.114346.28796@cs.ruu.nl>
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 11:43:46 GMT
- References: <1992Dec16.194212.491@rivers> <1992Dec18.105834.4754@sol.ctr.columbia.edu>
- Organization: Utrecht University, Dept. of Computer Science
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- >Er.. don't know. I'd have thought they'd be treated the same though,
- >you're not supposed to resell anything copyrighted without permission from
- >the holder, but as always, private deals are an exception.
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- The act copyright sanctions is copying. You may sell your copy to anyone you
- want and that is fully legal. No license applies unless you have actually
- signed something -- a contract with the supplier. Don't be intimidated by all
- kind of conditions on the package. They are void, unless they state what
- copyright law says, and in that case they are redundant.
-
- Jeroen
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