Mike McCarty wrote: > Mikkel L. Ellertson wrote: > >> Christofer C. Bell wrote: >> >>> On 1/19/06, Mike McCarty <mike.mccarty@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> BTW, desiring to control the behavior of others is generally >>>> considered a personality disorder. >>> >>> >>> >>> BTW, that's exactly what commerical EULAs do, also. So commerical >>> software distributors are all rife with personality disorders, as >>> well? >>> >> >> After reading a few EULAs, do you any droughts about them having >> "personality disorders"? > > > Some of them seem to, I agree. But not all EULAs are bad. > Take, for example, GPL. Do you think it is a bad EULA? > Well, as far as EULAs go, it is a fairly good one. It can be a pain for programmers, depending on what they are trying to do, and a BIG problem for a company that want to repackage the code and sell it. But I would still class it an being written by someone with a "personality disorder". Otherwise it would be written in a more understandable form. It shares with more EULAs in that it looks like something written by a lawyer to be read by lawyers, and nether the writer or the lawyers it was written for understand programming. Now, I have seen a few that have a plain language section that tells you what you can do, followed by a section written for lawyers that says the same thing is a way that covers the author's ass... Mikkel -- Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for thou art crunchy and taste good with Ketchup!
