Jaqui opened this issue on Jul 18, 2002 ยท 73 posts
Phantast posted Tue, 30 July 2002 at 5:07 AM
"EULA's are legal, certain things are allowed in the eula certain things aren't they can be used to get you to install spyware." And which things are allowed are not clearly defined, or are badly defined. (Badly, because if they ARE allowed to install spyware, they SHOULDN'T be. There is a difference between what is allowed in law and what is morally correct.) Jacqui, I only said that your EULA is redundant, because all its terms are already covered by legislation. Where EULAs are actually useful is where they give the consumer additional rights (not give the vendor additional rights). For instance, in specifying how many copies the user is allowed to make (e.g. copying to a laptop). What might be more useful to you would be a copyright declaration. I know that Dendras has done some research in this area and come up with a template document. It doesn't change the status of anything, but makes the copyright situation clear in the correct legal terms.