UK Judge Rules COA is Not Evidence of a License

blane.bramble writes "In a ruling against a company selling counterfeit and genuine licenses, a UK judge seems to have ruled that the Certificate of Authenticity is not itself sufficient proof of license possession. This could have major ramifications for UK businesses that consider keeping the COA as proof of being licensed. The quote in question is 'Thus it can confer no license for the use of any Microsoft software by passing on the COA (certificate of authenticity), nor can the COA be evidence of, or itself confer, such a license'."

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Re:Time for RedHat to move in for the kill

[geoffspear]

Are you offering to sell me a copy of Linux without the GPL included?

I'm not a lawyer, but I think you might want to avoid posting evidence of your criminally infringing copyright violations in a public forum.