EULA and Modifed BSD

Matthew Flaschen matthew.flaschen at gatech.edu
Fri Dec 14 08:42:34 UTC 2007


David Woolley wrote:
> 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".

Ideally, but in practice the word EULA has been used to describe almost
every kind of software license.  The OP said his EULA will, "disclaim
certain exceptional aspects of our software."  That sounds like a
disclaimer of warranty for use, which would be part of a traditional EULA.

Matt Flaschen



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