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Hey law-talkin' guys who read my journal...

  • Feb. 29th, 2008 at 12:36 PM
katamari2
As you may know I'm dealing with EULAs as part of my PhD. I'm wondering specifically if the part of this particular EULA is a particular legal custom or just weaselling on the part of the software manufacturer? (Name changed to protect the not-so-innocent):


7. Important Information Regarding X Software. If the Umbrella Software consists of X Software, then the following terms and conditions apply to you:

... etc.

The thing is I cannot find for the life of me how you can install Umbrella Software without installing X Software, so why the "if"? The whole point of Umbrella Software is to serve up X Software with the sweetener of Z Software. So is this weaselling and being dodgy, hoping to cast some doubt on the user as to whether maybe they got to use Z (the wonderful "free" stuff) without having to deal with X (the advertising)?

Comments

[info]panthagaria wrote:
Mar. 1st, 2008 02:24 am (UTC)
Ok, I don't know what a EULA is, and have only a small idea of what you are talking about re the clause you quoted.

Not sure re being weaselly- it may be that they are just being cautious- whoever wrote that may think that now or in the future it may be possible for the software to be separated (even though it isn't now) and they wanted the agreement to stand in that case.

But onto more important things- how are you Catie? Are you still in Canberra? How goes PhD? I should be heading up to Canberra in the next few months to see friends and folks, so it would be good to catch up with you- or give us a call when you're in Sydney :)

[info]taffyd wrote:
Mar. 4th, 2008 12:00 pm (UTC)
I'd say it's a quirk/left over from the drafting process. Possibly a result of using the same terms and conditions for multiple software packages.

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