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No, you don’t have ownership of the license. You can’t sell it, so you don’t own it.
by jtbayly 4y ago
No, you don’t have ownership of the license. You can’t sell it, so you don’t own it.
- Closi 4y agoYou can absolutely own things without being able to sell them. See pharmaceuticals as an obvious/trivial example - you can own prescription drugs without being able to sell/dispense them.
- jtbayly 4y agoIf the law forbids something, that’s a very different situation than a TOS or EULA forbidding something.
- Closi 4y agoIt's not very different, both are under law, just one is under contract law. Of course you can own things that you can't sell anyway, you can own an extended warranty on your flatscreen television, or own non-transferrable bonds in a company. Most things you own you can sell, but it's a mistake to think that ability to sell is a prereqesite to ownership, and a non-transferable licence is one of those things on the list of 'things you can own but cannot sell'. And on the 'buy' point - Do you think you can buy a haircut, or buy a pedicure?
- anticensor 4y agoWhat GP means is statutory law versus contracts. > And on the 'buy' point - Do you think you can buy a haircut, or buy a pedicure? Those are services, not products.
- Closi 4y agoIt’s about what the word “buy” means though. If we are happy that you can buy services, I assume we are happy with Steam using “buy” to represent the purchase of the service and licensing offering they have?