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Macromedia SDK License: You Must Debug

Posted by timothy on from the must-work dept.

Daniel Grund writes: "I noticed Macromedia has an SDK to help programmers write software that can generate SWF files. So, being curious, I skimmed their licensing agreement to see what I could see. Amusingly enough, sections 3f and 3g actually give the SDK user the legal obligation to debug their code! Of course, only bugs that cause the SWF files to be erroneous are required to be fixed. However, in theory, if you wrote a program that makes buggy SWF files, you could be sued by Macromedia (but only if you do it using the SDK I guess.) How's that for pressure on the Quality Assurance people; you not only annoy the customers if you fail, you also get the company sued."

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  1. [OT] Re:Clarification: by tunah · · Score: 1, Offtopic
    That's gotta be the most ominous email I ever recieved. It begins:

    grammar nazi has posted a comment in reply to your comment. Re:Clarification:

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