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Upholding the first sale doctrine

Upholding the first sale doctrine

Posted Mar 22, 2013 19:21 UTC (Fri) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239)
In reply to: Upholding the first sale doctrine by giraffedata
Parent article: Upholding the first sale doctrine

"I don't see how that entitles you to get source code from that person"

GPL 3(b): "Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three years, to give any third party, for a charge no more than your cost of physically performing source distribution, a complete machine-readable copy of the corresponding source code"

The more interesting case is if the work was originally distributed under 3(a) and you received a binary CD and a separate source CD. Selling the binary CD on its own would cause the recipient to have problems.


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