Here are some of my ideas for Fedora 8 and Fedora 9
Erik Hemdal
ehemdal at townisp.com
Sat Jul 7 23:58:37 UTC 2007
> Message: 10
> Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 16:52:14 -0500
> From: Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com>
. . . .
> David Boles wrote:
>
> > Honestly. Just read one of the darn EULAs. Or have an attorney explain it
> > to you.
>
> You have an extremely one-sided view. There is no reason to assume that
> everything a EULA demands is legal. You may end up in an expensive
> lawsuit if you break it, but it's a mix bag who will win. For example,
> if someone sells you a product and demands that you can't resell it,
> that demand is not legal:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2001/11/28/us_court_ruling_nixes_software/
> If they say you can't reverse engineer it, that's still up in the air:
> http://cse.stanford.edu/class/cs201/projects-99-00/intellectual-property-law/reverse_engineering.htm
> although the DCMA would apply to some software and change things in
> countries that support it.
>
Thanks Les. I could not recall DMCA, but that's the ugly law I meant.
The problem with EULA's is that you have to fight them out in court. If
a publisher make them nasty enough, many people will just give in and
accept the terms, as David suggested.
I can recommend http://www.badsoftware.com as a very informative site
about consumer protections regarding packaged software. The author
behind the site (and an author of the associated book) is an attorney
and a software test practitioner, as well as an awfully nice guy.
Erik
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> Les Mikesell
> lesmikesell at gmail.com
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