Talk:End-user license agreement
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The Shrink Wrap License is the EULA. EULA is the friendlier term that the software industry prefers....
The practice of EULAs legality is questionable and is being debated by the courts now. Should the cases on EULAs and their legality be discused here- which would be a huge article or in each case?
Also the GPL is not a EULA. The GPL is a copyright license covering distribution of copyrighted works and derivatives.
- EULAs are a sub-category of shrink wrap contracts. I'm writing a page on the legal issues relating to shrink wrap contracts so I'll link those issues there. In general, US courts are split on whether or not they're enforcable but they probably are. Psychobabble
removed : It is common to compare the terms of the Microsoft Windows EULA with the GNU GPL. to talk because it begs the obvious, unanswered question, WHY? Pete/Pcb21 (talk) 15:41, 2 Dec 2003 (UTC)
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All the documents I have seen that call themselves `EULA's are agreements* (not licenses). Whereas the article says a `EULA' is a type of license. Should this not be rectified. Also, maybe point out that the word has no agreed on definition (and certainly is not a techinical legal word), therefore is used in various different ways by different people.
[* Ones that, yes, are actually probably invalid in many jurisdictions, including, as I understand it, the EU; but, nonetheless, they attempt to be agreements between two parties as opposed to a one-way grant of permission.]
--Joe Llywelyn Griffith Blakesley 14:35, 2004 Nov 12 (UTC)
P.S.: In answer to the last comment, "WHY?", I understand that Microsoft and supporters of that company have been known to make such comparisons (e.g.: to the media) in order to imply that there are similarities between the two and thereby imply that the GNU GPL is as legally (and morally*) questionable as the MSW `EULA'. Although I would question whether this information is really at all appropriate in the article.
[* that is obviously subjective.]