Andy Smith <andy@???> wrote:
> My understanding is that while Microsoft may say
> that an OEM licence is not transferable, there
> is no European law that says this is the case.
Quite the opposite...
Legal opinion, published by the Register in 2002:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2002/05/08/selling_oem_windows_copies_you/
Text of the directive 91/250/EEC:
http://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX:31991L0250:EN:HTML
or
http://europa.eu.int/ISPO/legal/en/ipr/software/text.html#HD_NM_4
which has better formatting. Look in particular at
the end of Article 4.
Whether this has been incorporated in UK law is
another matter...
> And I'm not a lawyer.
Ditto.
Nick.
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