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	<title>Comments on: EULA</title>
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		<title>By: Malcolm</title>
		<link>http://robert.accettura.com/blog/2004/11/04/eula/#comment-1122</link>
		<dc:creator>Malcolm</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 1969 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I hadn't thought about Talkback. That's quite important.

One thing: to me, as a user, one of the main advantages of free/open source software is that I don't need to worry about licensing. Ever.

The GPL has two great phrases that make it really easy to get past legal:

* "Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted []"

* "You are not required to accept this License []. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works".

Therefore, if I'm not distributing it, I can ignore the license. I can see that this isn't entirely appropriate for the branded Firefox with bundled software, but it would be really nice to just not have an EULA.

Perhaps it would make sense to split the license into use (Trademark, whatever), and redistribution (MPL, Talkback copyright)?

Malcolm (very much NAL)
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		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I hadn&#8217;t thought about Talkback. That&#8217;s quite important.</p>
<p>One thing: to me, as a user, one of the main advantages of free/open source software is that I don&#8217;t need to worry about licensing. Ever.</p>
<p>The <acronym title="GNU General Public License">GPL</acronym> has two great phrases that make it really easy to get past legal:</p>
<p>* &#8220;Activities other than copying, distribution and modification are not covered by this License; they are outside its scope. The act of running the Program is not restricted []&#8221;</p>
<p>* &#8220;You are not required to accept this License []. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works&#8221;.</p>
<p>Therefore, if I&#8217;m not distributing it, I can ignore the license. I can see that this isn&#8217;t entirely appropriate for the branded Firefox with bundled software, but it would be really nice to just not have an EULA.</p>
<p>Perhaps it would make sense to split the license into use (Trademark, whatever), and redistribution (MPL, Talkback copyright)?</p>
<p>Malcolm (very much NAL)</p>
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