RE: [dvd-discuss] Interesting 1st sale-shrinkwrap-EULA-(c) infringementcase

[Noah silva <nsilva(at)atari-source.com>]

I suppose that's true, since I can sell any particular copy of GPL (or
whatever) software that I like.  It's just.. would people be willing to
buy it for very much? ;)

If renting is still legal, and not a first sale, then couldn't companies
like adobe effectively get around this by offering their software only for
rent (say the sale price to rent it for a term of.. 100 years).

  -- noah silva

On Fri, 2 Nov 2001, Ballowe, Charles wrote:

> The license on GPL (for example) is slightly different -- it doesn't
> cover use, but redistribution. These are rights granted to the 
> copyright holder and so are open to negotiation. It's not a software
> license as much as a publishing license. The GPL consists of 3 sections,
> the preamble, "TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR COPYING, DISTRIBUTION, AND 
> MODIFICATION", and a how to apply this to your creation. It makes
> no statement about use.
> 
> -Charles Ballowe