I was curious if anyone out there has experience getting the necessary legal documents (user agreements, privacy policies, disclaimers, etc.) for a small software business. For example if you just want to have a software 'company' that sells a few piece of software that you have written, are there cheap solutions for something small sca...
Folks, i'm looking for a standard EULA form to include with my freeware project. I'm just looking for clauses to "cover my butt": not responsible for any losses, etc. Is there a standard, boilerplate template that I can get from somewhere? Googling didn't help.. NOTE: I'm not releasing the source code of the software with the project....
This is a very simple question with a simple answer, but it is not quite so simple to find the answer on the internet. I have a simple Setup (deployment) project in Visual Studio 2008, and I have the EULA text. What do I need to do in the project to get the EULA into the install wizard? ...
Should I create my own End-User Software License (with a lawyer), or are there some good examples of one on the Internet? I'm getting close to rolling out my first Windows-based program for my side-business. I would like to have the end-users to agree not to: resell the software, change/modify it, use it in another application, etc. An...
This is the only product that I know that a consumer must agree to something that only lawyer can (something) understand. I'm sure car accidents kill more people each year than software accidents. But I don't sign anything like an EULA when I buy a car. So why does software have EULA? Were there a bad accident that triggered the need f...
I want to publish some software for different Linux distributions, using the regular Linux packaging formats (rpm, deb, yast, etc). My package will require a click-thru license agreement. Which Linux tools and package formats support a license in the package which is shown to the user before installing the software? ...
I just found IE Collection, a multiple standalone IE installer (IE 1.5 through 8.0!) and it has been a great help for finding little rendering issues in my CSS. My concern is that our MCSE/IT guy says that it is a violation of Microsoft's redistribution rules. Am I breaking the rules by using it? Do others use IE Collection or other sta...
Where can I find the license terms for Microsoft Biztalk Server? (especially the Developer license). I've found the pricing and licensing page, which links to a FAQ - but I can't find the actual legal document anywhere (i.e. the actual license terms). The closest is a 100+ page document of "user rights" - but it is only the changes from...
Somewhere in the web i found this version of EULA! You have no rights Please read carefully 1 So what is the best practice on creating the end user licence agreement? Visiting a laywer or searching and modifing a ready one generic template? Could you povide me a point to start? ...
I've got a commercial SaaS application, an online collaboration/lean project mgmt tool. I want to offer a "Community Edition", with specific limitations on how the software can be used, for free. For example free for groups using it to manage open source projects free to K-12 teachers to use in the classroom free for authors collaborat...
I am planning to submit an iPhone app for certain special purpose calculations. I want to add a legal disclaimer about the calculations somewhere so that the user can see it atleast once before starting to use the app. Should this go into the EULA that may be submitted as part of app submission process? Or should that be a one time scree...
A simple display:none gets rid of them, is this common practise? My maps are small and they're quite obtrusive... ...
I've added a EULA using VS2005's built in License Agreement UI form in a Setup Project. This form has a LicenseFile property that you set to an RTF file that displays the EULA. Assuming I have a number of translated RTFs, how can I make the EULA that is displayed point to the appropriate RTF localized to the user's Windows CurrentCultu...
If you have an Android application that needs to retrieve data from your own server that depends on the latitude and longitude of the requests, do you need to let a user agree with the ability to save that same latitude and longitude for simple (and fun) statistical and anonymous purposes in some sort of EULA? Or is it sufficient to men...
Is it mandatory to have EULA for free android applications on Android Market. I 'm going to upload a free android application on Android Market. Since I 'm new to the process to uploading application to android market could anyone tell me why EULA is needed ? ...
I have an app that allows users to generate and publish content. I would like to possibly be able to use the content they publish/create to make derivative works, ie books etc (similar to what icanhazcheeseburger has done.) If I were to put an opt in alert to ask the user whether or not they would like to be a part of this, would this vi...
I've created a setup and deployment project for my vb.net application using the Visual Studio 2010 wizard. I also added the eula.rtf file to the setup project and set it to install to the user's application folder. I then added a license agreement UI dialog in the setup project and pointed the licenseFile to eula.rtf. However, when testi...
The GPL and AGPL require derived works to be released under the same terms,I don't understand the terms of "derived",what is the meaning of the "derived".If I develop a client software of mysql(mysql is license under GPL),I use some mysql lib,when I distribute it,may I have to make my software a GPL license?Navicat(a client software of m...
When installing a software which does not require the user to accept any license, what can the users legally do? My guess would be they can legally do anything except claiming the software as their own production, but I am not sure. Is there some kind of "default license"? Does the fact that the software is publicly available or not chan...
My company just bought Reflector, but our lawyers are saying that we legally cannot use it except for open source code (i.e. cannot use it for most Microsoft and almost all 3rd party code). They claim that because EULA's typically prevent a user from "reverse engineering" the code, that Reflector breaks the EULA by definition. Any expe...