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Originally Posted by pdurrant
If someone has upgraded to a new version, they don't have an old licence to sell. They still need the old licence as a base for the upgrade licence, in most cases.
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That's if they buy an upgrade license.
Some software only provide upgrade licenses if you upgrade with each version. Skip one and you've to buy again. Those old licenses would then it seems to me, be fair game to sell on. I guess I mudded the water by saying "upgrade" when it's really a re-purchase of a newer version. They're upgrading in terms of getting a newer version but not via an upgrade path/discount.
Whether you could sell an old version after using it as basis for an upgrade, I don't know. My gut says no, but with the new ruling, who knows how it would be interpreted if it also went to court. Maybe companies will instead adopt a "trade-in" policy for upgrades. You hand back the old license and they give you a new one. That would mesh with the non-digital world where upgrading a product wouldn't prevent you reselling the older version if you still had it, but trading-in the old in order to upgrade, would.