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From: dhesi@bsu-cs.UUCP (Rahul Dhesi)
Newsgroups: comp.lang.c,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: MSC 4.0 SALE (CHEAP)
Message-ID: <1568@bsu-cs.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 22-Nov-87 15:47:08 EST
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Posted: Sun Nov 22 15:47:08 1987
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In article <1116@cg-atla.UUCP> mallett@cg-atla.UUCP (Bruce Mallett X5267) 
writes:
>I have seen a number of "MSC 4.0 for sale" articles recently.  Is this
>really legal?  I assume that these are for sale because the owner has
>upgraded to 5.0.  My understanding of the license is that it covers
>that one copy and an upgrade is an enhancement to that one license.

However, shrink-wrap licenses have no legal validity, therefore there
was no license to begin with and only copyright law governs use.  If as
a condition to obtaining a discount on version 5.0 you agreed to
destroy all copies of version 4.0, you indeed cannot sell it legally.
If you didn't, I see no reason why you can't sell the old version.

Consider buying an encyclopedia.  The publisher encloses a coupon that
lets you get the next updated edition at a discount.  When you get the
new edition, can you not sell the old one?  (Hint:  this is a
rhetorical question.)
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Rahul Dhesi         UUCP:  <backbones>!{iuvax,pur-ee,uunet}!bsu-cs!dhesi