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From: sun@me.utoronto.ca (Andy Sun)
Subject: Re: Help: MS-DOS FORTRAN
Message-ID: <91Jun27.100532edt.18770@me.utoronto.ca>
Organization: U of Toronto, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering
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Date: 27 Jun 91 14:05:42 GMT

lsmith@unssun.nevada.edu (The Master) writes:


> Suppose I buy a used computer, and the hard disk is loaded with
>software. W.P., Lotus, DB4, all the goodies... The original owner
>bought the software and a license to install it on his computer.
>So the software is legal, right? Now he sells the computer. Does
>the software license transfer along with the computer and software,
>or does it stay with the original owner, who kept the floppies but
>does not now have a computer?


> POSTED FROM THE GREAT STATE OF NEVADA                                          
>================================================================================
>+Where men are MEN....                reply to: lsmith@unssun.nevada.edu
>+And sheep are nervous.

The software licenses stay with the owner, regardless of whether he/she has
a computer or not (who said one has to have a computer to buy software?).

If he/she is selling the computer without first erasing any license software
in it, strictly speaking, he/she is violating the copyright law. Some software
license are transferrable (i.e. sellable) but I am not sure if all of them are.

Andy

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