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- From: whs70@dancer.cc.bellcore.com (sohl,william h)
- Subject: Re: Question => Second hand software
- Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 92 15:39:27 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec28.153927.28849@porthos.cc.bellcore.com>
- References: <bhayden.723912529@teal> <1992Dec10.045327.16364@panix.com> <1992Dec25.115018.17701@qiclab.scn.rain.com>
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- In article <1992Dec25.115018.17701@qiclab.scn.rain.com> Leonard.Erickson@f51.n105.z1.fidonet.org writes:
- >oppedahl@panix.com (Carl Oppedahl) writes:
- >>I thought there was a shrink-wrap case in Louisiana a few years
- >>ago ...
- >
- >Yes, but Louisiana is a special case. They have a state law that
- >*explicitly* states that "shrink wrap" licenses are valid. The various
- >software publishers haven'y managed to talk any other states into
- >doing that.
-
- The pragmatic question even for Louisiana then is: How much, if any,
- prosecution is going on with violators of Shrink-Wrap licenses? I'll
- venture a quess that it isn't many, if any.
-
- More and more today you can stop by neighborhood garage sales and find
- all kinds of "used" software for sale. The question as to the legality
- of selling that software is never addressed, not by the buyer, not by
- the seller nor (most importantly) by the software producer and/or the
- police. That doesn't make it legal, but I mention it as it is now
- and will continue to happen more frequently in the future.
-
- Just an observation.
-
- Standard Disclaimer- Any opinions, etc. are mine and NOT my employer's.
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