On Fri, 9 Aug 2013 15:12:06 +0100, Neil wrote in message <[email protected]>:
> > On 9 Aug 2013, at 13:02, Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> My friend picked up a Linksys BEFSR81 router > >> (<http://msupport.linksys.com/en-us/support/routers/BEFSR81>) at > >> D[EFF]con, > > > > ..exactly when did your friend pick it up? > > That decides the 3 years in the GPLv2. > > If the vendor was the first to put that instance of the device on the > market in the US, I could see that being the case > > If the vendor was reselling a device which had already been on the > market (e.g. selling a secondhand device, even if still in the > original wrapping) — which was how I read the original post, but I > may be wrong — I would not have thought that copyright law, and the > terms of the GPL, was of relevance. ..I see no difference selling brand new and 2'nd hand stuff under the GPLv2, the only "such" difference is the "hobbyist privilege" in §3c on noncommercial distribution. .."picked up" in US English, suggests a purchase. Cole? -- ..med vennlig hilsen = with Kind Regards from Arnt Karlsen ...with a number of polar bear hunters in his ancestry... Scenarios always come in sets of three: best case, worst case, and just in case.
