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[News] Free Software Lawyer Shows Example of Proprietary Licensing Gone Very Wrong

  • Subject: [News] Free Software Lawyer Shows Example of Proprietary Licensing Gone Very Wrong
  • From: Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 03 Jul 2010 15:46 +0100
  • Followup-to: comp.os.linux.advocacy
  • Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.advocacy
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Backup Copy (Bad Eula, Bad Eula! Down! Down!)

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| Backup Copy
| 
| From Adobe reader (for Android)âs end user 
| license agreement:
| 
| 3.3 Backup Copy.  You may make one backup 
| copy of the Software, provided your backup 
| copy is not installed or used other than for 
| archival purposes. 
| 
| [...]
| 
| Which leads one to wonder what, if any, point 
| is served by using a service of a 
| Certification Authority â which presumably is 
| supposed to certify something â if you 
| indemnify them when they stuff up.
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http://brendanscott.wordpress.com/2010/06/30/backup-copy/


Recent:

Stop Microsoft Office From Always Asking You to Accept the EULA

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| Reader Jean has a problem: she installed
| Office 2003 on her brand new Windows 7
| system, and every single time she runs it, a
| pop-up forces her to accept Microsoft's End
| User License Agreement (EULA).
|
| Dang it, Microsoft, she accepts already! She
| accepts!
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/17/AR2010051702392.html


Kiss Firefox EULA goodbye

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| When Mozilla requested Ubuntu to show Firefoxâs End User License Agreement on
| Firefox first start, the Ubuntu and other free software advocacy communities
| cried foul, because for some reason, stating the obvious (that Mozilla is not
| liable for whatever happens to your computer and that the software is free)
| is not in tune with the open source spirit.
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http://mozillalinks.org/wp/2008/11/kiss-firefox-eula-goodbye/
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