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May I Have Your EULA Please?

Posted by Cliff on from the draconian-branded-paper-scraps dept.

LionsFate asks: "Just like the subject says. I want End User Licence Agreements (EULAs). I'm starting a database of as many EULAs as I can get. I want to know the first EULA that said we can't reverse engineer their software. I want to know the first that said they can watch our activities. I want to know how the NES agreement differs from the GameCube. Did Nintendo lighten, or tighten restrictions? I'm looking to generate a time-line of EULAs and how they have changed. What permissions we have been given, and taken away over that period. What rights did we have in Windows 3.1, compared to Windows XP? How has the MPAA and RIAA changed our 'legal rights' on software as a result of their effort? Watched Napster or other P2P software and seen the changes in their EULAs? I'm starting my EULA database at here and I need as many EULAs as I can get to populate the database. If you can, please email me any/all that you can. I'm hoping within a few weeks to have the site online." Ask Slashdot last tackled the topic of EULAs in this piece. It would be interesting to grab a nice sample of EULAs across the last 2 decades to see what has changed, if anything.

5 of 340 comments (clear)

  1. f�rst! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Första posten för fosterlandet!

  2. Re:Mine's simple! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You, dear sir , seem like a very agreeable person. May I please have some of your turds? You know I'd really would like at least one of your tasty turds. Damn, I knew I left something out when I wrote the GPL! Oh well, maybe the next version...

    Yours sincerely,
    Richard M Stallman

  3. Copyright by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    This blah blah cannot be reproduced without giving full credit (or blame) to the copyright holder...fuck them all, it is a UNILATERAL contract. One sided. Kick them in the balls!

  4. What is this? by aengblom · · Score: 1, Troll

    What is this? A competition to build the most boring database in the world?

    hehe

    --


    So close and yet so far from the world's perfect ID number
  5. Redundant? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll
    Redundant? You balding 40 year old moderator this has been posted once.

    To busy to rub your fat wife's vericose veins this evening?