EULAs (Was: Re: XP Performance)
Brian Densmore
DensmoreB at ctbsonline.com
Wed Dec 5 15:51:13 CST 2001
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Edelman [mailto:edelman at speedscript.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 9:36 AM
> To: kclug at kclug.org
> Subject: EULAs (Was: Re: XP Performance)
>
>
> A while back I found somewhere on the Kansas government
> website a law/statute
> regarding End User Licensing Agreements. Basically, the law
> states that if
> before the transaction (exchange of money) takes place, you
> cannot see all
> the licensing agreements/contracts, a sale has taken place.
> As such, any EULA
> is void, and you can do whatever you wish with the software;
> it's yours.
[snip]
Yes,
The California Federal District court (next stop US Supreme),
recently ruled exactly this in the "other" DMCA case.
Basically they said 'It's a sale stupid.'
Brian
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