[License-discuss] Reverse Engineering and Open Source Licenses

[David Woolley]

On 10/03/15 16:55, cowan at ccil.org wrote:
> I've bought software exactly once, a boxed set of
> Red Hat Linux back in 1999.

You didn't buy the software.  You bought a piece of hardware with a 
single copy.  Red Hat don't even have the right to sell most of Linux as 
people like the FSF own it.

A lot of what you were probably trying to say is US specific, as it 
relates to the first sale doctrine.