EULA and Modifed BSD

[Russ Nelson]

Norman Young writes:
 > We have a product that we're about to release under the Modified BSD
 > license.  There is some confusion as to whether we also need a EULA of
 > some kind as well, since Firefox seems to have both the MPL and a
 > EULA.  Upon installation of the software, is it sufficient to just
 > show the modified BSD license to the user?  Can anyone help?

IANAL; take the following with a grain of salt.

Once you've given a copy to someone, they only need a license in order
to redistribute it.  Without the license, they don't have permission,
so they'll go looking for the license; you don't need to take steps to
make sure they've seen it.

You *do* need to make sure that a contract is formed in order to
disclaim warranty.  (As an aside, the GPL isn't a contract, so how can
it effectively disclaim warranty?)

Apart from disclaiming warranty, why would you care if a mere user of
your software agrees with your license?

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