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Re:Qt 6.0 by chrisseaton on Tuesday December 08, 2020 @04:34PM (#25351664)
Exactly a licence key - which you could transfer to someone else. You didn't own the software. You owned a licence to use it.
Re:Qt 6.0 by bmn__ on Thursday December 10, 2020 @03:58AM (#25371427)
That's false. When one purchases a copy of a (book|software|video), one then owns that good.

A typical proprietary software licence text is irrelevant when it comes to terms of ownership, transfer of ownership, use of the good etc. as the law applies and determines "how [things] actually are". A contract, let alone a unilaterally dictated licence text, is legally unable to take away certain rights the consumer enjoys.