[nsp] Purchase Cisco IOS

[Stephen J. Wilcox]

On Sat, 20 Dec 2003, Gert Doering wrote:

> > I understand this is not the case in some countries, outside the USA. 
> 
> This sort of license is certainly not legal in germany.

I believe it not being legal to do that applies to any EU member country where
licenses are always assignable/sellable.. (so I was told, I havent confirmed
this)

Steve

> 
> Here, it's either "you have purchased the license" (in that case you can
> *always* re-sell it to someone else, of course passing on all copies of the
> software, media, and so on), or "the vendor is leasing it to you" (in
> which case lots of interesting legal oblications apply to the vendor
> regarding "bugfixes" and so on).
> 
> gert
>