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0 pointsRetra9y ago0 comments

You should fight any EULA that allows you to 'agree' to something without actually having any power to negotiate the terms of the agreement.

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eridius9y ago· 2 in thread

That would mean every EULA ever made. EULA's aren't ever a negotiation.

Edit: I take it back. See reply.

EvanAnderson9y ago

The last company I worked for negotiated EULAs with contract development Customers. The Customer's price varied according to the rights they requested.

It's certainly the case that most off-the-shelf EULAs aren't open to negotiation because the Customer is often inconsequentially small to the software "manufacturer". Larger Customers (particularly governments) certainly negotiate for license terms with major software "manufacturers", however.

eridius9y ago

You're right. I was thinking of EULA as just covering the license terms that end users have to accept before using software, which are not a negotiation, as opposed to special licensing terms that are negotiated (which I previously would have considered to just be "a contract"). But after perusing the wikipedia page on EULA, it does appear that specially-negotiated license terms are still a EULA, as EULA really just means a software license agreement.

chc9y ago· 1 in thread

That would seem to include the GPL. Is that intended?

RetraOP9y ago

Well, the GPL wouldn't be necessary if you could properly negotiate your rights by default.

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