Writing in the margin of the book is one thing but what if you purchased a book and replaced the cover with one that said you wrote the book, then sold it as your own work? That seems a closer analogy to this situation. On 8/8/07, rwh <rwh at visi.com> wrote: > > I think you're all missing that point that by purchasing the original > unit you've paid for the license to all of that stuff for that > individual unit. You're perfectly free to re-badge the thing as Uncle > Ned's Truly Good WAP and Linksys can't do anything about it - that's > what the doctrine of first-sale is all about. If I write notes in the > margins of a book, I'm still free to sell that book and the publisher > can't stop me. > > Now if you were extracting Linksys's ROM code for some other unit there > would be copyright issues. If you were buying their units, hacking on > them and reselling them without at least a disclaimer that they had been > mod'ed there could be issues regarding the Linksys trademark. > > --rick > > Chuck Cole wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- > >> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org > >> [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org]On Behalf Of Larry R. Pint > >> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 1:21 PM > >> To: admin at lctn.org; tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >> Subject: Re: [tclug-list] OT copy write question > >> > >> > >> I am not a lawyer, but that sound like a pretty clear instance of > >> copyright violation to me. > >> > >> Larry > >> > > > > > > Probably more than that. Just the interface to the ROMs is a > proprietary > > hardware and software design by itself. > > > > Probably has some patent coverage as well. > > > > Clear case of substantial plagiarism in both hardware and software, > unless > > by agreement and marked as such. > > > > .. and, as noted, probably will require new FCC test, certification, > > approval, etc. > > > > Only way around all that is to sell as a DIY kit. > > > > > > Chuck > > > > > > > >>> -----Original Message----- > >>> From: tclug-list-bounces at mn-linux.org [mailto:tclug-list-bounces at mn- > >>> linux.org] On Behalf Of admin at lctn.org > >>> Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 1:10 PM > >>> To: tclug-list at mn-linux.org > >>> Subject: [tclug-list] OT copy write question > >>> > >>> I am waiting for a response from Linksys on this, but not sure I will > >>> > >> get > >> > >>> one. Anyone know if it is a violation of any copy write, or other laws > >>> > >> to > >> > >>> modify the hardware, replace the software, and case, on used Linksys > >>> routers, and resell them as a different product? > >>> > >>> -- > >>> > > > > > -- - Tom Penney -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://mailman.mn-linux.org/pipermail/tclug-list/attachments/20070808/d19a293e/attachment-0001.htm