EULA and Modifed BSD

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Tue Dec 11 22:02:17 UTC 2007


Norman Young wrote:
> 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.

In that case you won't have an OSI approved licence, and it is arguable 
that you won't have an open source licence, as it fairly fundamental 
feature of open source licences that end users are also potential 
distributors.

-- 
David Woolley
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.



More information about the License-discuss mailing list