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Standardized EULA

Category: Software
Responses: 3 (3 in support, 0 neutral, 0 in opposition)
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Software developers should establish a standard end-user license agreement(EULA) so that users can read the license agreement once, and then make the same agreement with different software developers. I really like how I can install GPL'd software without reading the EULA every time, since I'm already familiar with the GPL.

All types of crazy stuff is put into EULA's, and users "agree" to it because they don't have time to read the EULA. If users actually had to read the EULA, the software industry would collapse because most software is not be worth the effort required to read and understand the EULAs.

dumllama, Apr 21 2007

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At least bullet points with standard clauses. I think they would have trouble enforcing non-standard clauses because no one reads those things. We all assume that we cannot sell it, etc.

wizard1961, Apr 23 2007

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