Re: [ossig] Dangerous EULA Terms

[Dinesh Nair <dinesh@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/02/2005 00:04 Nur Hussein said the following:
> using software these days. AFAIK our good ol' OSS licenses don't have
> any EULA's to them (or at least the GPL and BSD ones don't - since
> they're redistribution terms, not usage terms).

actually, the GPL, BSD et al are EULAs, just like microsoft's EULAs. the 
difference is that the GPL, BSD et al allow distribution (with some 
restrictions) while the closed source EULAs bar redistribution, 
reverse-engineering, multiple copies et al.

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