EULA and Modifed BSD

David Woolley forums at david-woolley.me.uk
Fri Dec 14 08:36:51 UTC 2007


Matthew Flaschen wrote:

> Just saying you have a EULA means absolutely nothing.  We would need to
> read the EULA to make any meaningful claim about it.  It could say,
> "Besides the normal BSD rights, if you distribute the program, COMPANY
> will give you $10,000!"  That's still a EULA, but it's also OSD-compliant.

If you re-distribute, you are not acting as an end user, so the licence 
is not an end user licence, even if it labelled "EULA".

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