Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote: [...] > Let's analyse some situations: > 1. You gave B to a friend > that's first sale
Right. > 1.1 your friend sold B to someone else > that's first sale Right. > 1.2 your friend sold copies of B to other people (B1, B2, etc...) > that's no longer first sale, that's distribution of new copies Wrong. First sale is about distribution of authorized copies by their owners. The GPL entitles your friend to make copies and he owns them. So it does fall under first sale and only a contractual covenant can interfere with your friend's right to distribute all his copies as he sees fit under first sale and not the GPL. > and that can only be done under the terms of the GNU GPL, the > only license that permits those copies. Otherwise, copyright > says your friend can't do that. > > 2. You sell B to someone else > that's just like 1.1 Right. > 2.1 that someone else gives copies of B to other people (B1, B2, etc...) > that's just like 1.2 Except that 1.2 is wrong. > > 3. you give copies of B to other people (B1, B2, etc...) > that's just like 1.2 Except that 1.2 is wrong. > > Rui 4. Rui sold or gifted copies of B to Terekhov (B1, B2, etc...). Rui was compliant with the GPL and provided access to source code to Terekhov. Terekhov is not a party under the GPL agreement regarding those copies to begin with, and he may resell those copies under first sale ignoring the GPL altogether. regards, alexander. _______________________________________________ Gnu-misc-discuss mailing list Gnu-misc-discuss@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/gnu-misc-discuss