Comments on: “small print project” http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/10/17/small-print-project/ Ramblings on law school in New York, free software, and the spaces in between. Thu, 21 Aug 2008 23:26:34 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6 By: eindgebruiker http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/10/17/small-print-project/#comment-3136 eindgebruiker Thu, 19 Oct 2006 09:58:01 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/10/17/small-print-project/#comment-3136 I have been wondering for a while if it would be possible to create a "EULA component database". People hardly look at EULAs, as they consist mostly of a lot of the same boring stuff. What is interesting about EULAs is what sets them apart. What if people could tag EULAs with components or characteristics in an online database? Which end-users then could look up? I could imagine a Creative Commons like structure, with icons telling things like "this software will phone home" or "this software will install a rootkit on your system". All non-legal advice of course. But at least it would improve on the current situation where hardly anyone reads the EULAs anyway. I have been wondering for a while if it would be possible to create a “EULA component database”. People hardly look at EULAs, as they consist mostly of a lot of the same boring stuff. What is interesting about EULAs is what sets them apart. What if people could tag EULAs with components or characteristics in an online database? Which end-users then could look up?

I could imagine a Creative Commons like structure, with icons telling things like “this software will phone home” or “this software will install a rootkit on your system”.

All non-legal advice of course. But at least it would improve on the current situation where hardly anyone reads the EULAs anyway.

]]> By: Journal Of An Open Sourcee http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/10/17/small-print-project/#comment-8498 Journal Of An Open Sourcee Tue, 30 Nov 1999 00:00:00 +0000 http://tieguy.org/blog/2006/10/17/small-print-project/#comment-8498 <!--%kramer-pre%-->Joe Shaw: beagle breakTor Lillqvist: cairo canvas in OpenOffice.org on WindowsFederico Mena-Quintero: Tue 2006/Oct/17Rob Bradford: GConf diff toolDavyd Madeley: all the way with lcaDon Scorgie: New Labyrinth FeaturesLuis Villa: “small print project”Vivien Malerba: GnomeDb demoRonald Bultje: VerkiezingenRich Burridge: Malaprops <!--%kramer-post%--> links from TechnoratiJoe Shaw: beagle breakTor Lillqvist: cairo canvas in OpenOffice.org on WindowsFederico Mena-Quintero: Tue 2006/Oct/17Rob Bradford: GConf diff toolDavyd Madeley: all the way with lcaDon Scorgie: New Labyrinth FeaturesLuis Villa: “small print project”Vivien Malerba: GnomeDb demoRonald Bultje: VerkiezingenRich Burridge: Malaprops

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