Florian Overkamp wrote:
Michiel van Baak wrote:
If you buy a model without the "spare" in it's name, you
have the license to use them right ?
To use them with a CCM or CCME, yes :-)
How about secondhand phones you get from ebay ?
Is my cisco smartnet account enough to run the phone legally
? It's not a spare model (at least that was not in the deal
description)
My understanding is, if you have any license at all, Cisco will probably
not bother you. But it is most definitely not the way they intended :-)
The bottom line are the words in the Cisco license agreement that
essentially says none of their firmware licenses are transferable. A
purchase from Ebay would be an attempt to transfer the license and
therefore illegal.
There are some Cisco authorized resellers around that do sell used (or
in Cisco terms, reconditioned) phones. Some apparently have the
capability to bundle smartnet contracts with the phones, but they are
not living up to the actual words in the license.
The flip side of this... how many people would it take for Cisco to
inventory and enforce their written licenses throughout the world?
Another side issue... the Cisco phones have no way to "remove" the
installed firmware. Therefore, there is no way to legally sell a used
Cisco phone, period.
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