The EULA is irrelevant if it contradicts fair-use rights allowed in
law. Autodesk recently filed a lawsuit against someone selling Autocad:
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080523-court-smacks-autodesk-affirms-right-to-sell-used-software.html
Similarly to Autodesks website, CodeGear's site uses the word "How to
buy", "Reasons to buy". This is a misguided attempt to sell more copies
of the software, arguments about costs of transferring licences are
just smoke and mirrors.
John Mason
Richard Vowles wrote:
The official line, no matter what John says, is that
licenses are *not* transferrable - it says so right there in the
license file - go read it for yourself. The argument has been the cost
of the overheard of dealing with transferred licenses and tracking
licenses. What Paul may be confusing me with saying is that
inter-company transfers are no problem, and when you have a product
that has never been licensed you are effectively acting as a reseller,
which is also not generally a problem (although the license does
actually prohibit this as well).
CodeGear generally will transfer the licenses for companies who have
been purchased or merged with other companies as long as they fill in
all the paper work. The last time it happened, it took around two
months.
So - if you are going to find a second hand copy on TradeMe - make sure
it hasn't been registered already. The one and only time we did that
for someone who purchased on ebay it was because they had been shafted.
Richard
2008/5/30 Todd Martin < todd.martin.nz@ gmail.com>:
A
few years ago I purchased a copy of Delphi 6 Pro from someone in the US
and had no problems re-registering it with Borland.
Paul A Norman wrote:
Dear Richard,
You have posted here in past years that licenses can be arranged to be
transfered if it is clear they have not been used for upgrades, or a
company/individual is going rigth out of Delphi, or purchased too many
licenses in the past.
Paul
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