EULA and Modifed BSD

[Norman Young]

Thanks to all of you who replied.  We ended up checking with a lawyer
and it turns out that for the specifics of our case, some kind of EULA
that sits on top of the New BSD is required to disclaim certain
exceptional aspects of our software.

Norman

On Dec 10, 2007 11:56 AM, Russ Nelson <nelson at crynwr.com> wrote:
>
> 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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