[X4U] OT - reselling software

alexandre mac at kapellos.com
Tue Apr 10 13:56:04 PDT 2007


On 10 avr. 07, at 21:59, Zane H. Healy wrote:

>> when you sell your copy of the software, you're actually  
>> transferring the license to USE that copy.
>> so, you take the money from the person buying it, and you hand  
>> over ALL discs and manuals and whatever was in the box when you  
>> opened it, as well as notifying apple that you are transferring  
>> the license to that new person, with all their info..name, phone,  
>> etc.
>>
>> be very much like transferring apple care to somebody who buys  
>> your Mac with applecare still activated.
>>
>> then, of course, apple assumes and expects that you remove every  
>> speck of that software from all of your computers.
>>
>> others may have comments to add, but I believe I've nutshelled it  
>> for ya.
>
> I believe you should also provide them with a letter that states  
> that you are transferring your license to them.  I've not dealt  
> with this in about 10 years.  At that time I bought a couple pieces  
> of software from a local Mac/PC store, only to find out that they  
> were already registered, and that they were registered to the  
> store.  Of course they didn't tell me this, the software publisher  
> did.  IIRC, Quark wanted the signed statement that the license had  
> been transferred.
>
> Zane
>

thanks to both of you for your answers.

best regards

alexandre
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