Gator's EULA Dissected

theVP writes "Ben Edelman has recently written up his disassembly of the Gator EULA. He has come across some interesting finds, including the fact that their EULA states that you can't remove their software via 3rd-party means, as well as prohibiting the use of packet sniffers or intercepting the data coming from their software."

Comments

Next edition of Gator's EULA

[l1nuxpunk]

The USER of this SOFTWARE gives up all rights to their immortal SOUL. Any attempt to regain the rights to your SOUL will result in immediate banishment.

Have a great Gator day!

Re:Death penatly for spyware.

[brunson]

I think the death penalty is justified for sitting stopped in front of me when you have a free acceleration lane to use to merge with traffic.

And for not realizing it's legal to make a left hand turn on red from one one-way street onto another.

And for hanging out in the passing lane on the freeway while people are passing you on the right.

And for being my mother-in-law.

Remedy for Gator?

[nightsweat]

So what's Gator's remedy if you violate the EULA? They consider the contract broken and you can't use their software anymore?

Great! That's what I want - your crap spyware gone. Now please enforce the EULA.

Re:Remedy for Gator?

[Anonymous Coward]

not to mention the absurdity of disallowing a third party uninstall in the EULA.

"If you try and remove our software using third party software, we will, uh... remove our software..."

Re:Somehow I think/hope...

[someone1234]

We are lucky virus writers don't tag such EULA's to their stuff (yet).

Re:Exorbitant clause

[Foolhardy]

their EULA states that you can't remove their software via 3rd-party means

What are they going to do about it? Rescind permission to use their software? I think I would have demonstrated that I wanted to stop using it by removing it.