Hyman writes: > The manufacturer sells copies of software to a reseller, in full > compliance with the GPL, shipping binaries and source. He has not sold > any "rights". The reseller has not bought any "rights".
You wrote that the manufacturer had been paid by the reseller for agreeing not to make source available to anyone but the reseller, leaving the reseller, who has a license (the GPL), the only one free to distribute source. That is the sale of a right by the manufacturer to the reseller. > He may do only what copyright law allows - he may choose to distribute > under the GPL, or he may choose to distribute under first sale. He owns part of the copyright (the right to distribute source). -- John Hasler [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dancing Horse Hill Elmwood, WI USA _______________________________________________ gnu-misc-discuss mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss
