> picked up, suggests a purchase. Cole? Yes. A purchase. Roughly $20. ----
Cole Johnson -- E-mail: [email protected] -- Twitter: @5urd Hexware, LLC -- Twitter: @HexwareLLC On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 2:01 PM, Arnt Karlsen <[email protected]> wrote: > 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.
