Originally Posted by
kalniel
Well not me, since I'm not in Germany and the ruling doesn't apply in the UK, but even so, they're not saying that. You don't gain any additional features/rights just because you've bought from a third party. You never own all rights for a piece of software for example, unless it is explicitly transferred to you.
What this ruling is purely saying is that if a software license is as close to ownership that it makes little difference (for eg a lifelong license), then it is considered 'ownership' in German law and can be sold on. That selling on has to include all the legal conditions (bit I quoted) - the only difference is any condition 'not to resell' can be ignored. That doesn't exclude all the other conditions.