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OpenSUSE's EULAs vs. Free Software Ideals

Posted by timothy on from the naughty-naughty-lawyers dept.

Anonymous Coward Maximus writes with some interesting (and disheartening) bits found in recent EULAs from SUSE: "Apparently the Beta came/comes with an interesting EULA discussed in this Planète Béranger article that just makes me think where is this whole Novell/Microsoft ridiculousness going to end? One quote from the EULA to whet your appetite: 'The Software may contain an automatic disabling mechanism that prevents its use after a certain period of time, so You should back up Your system and take other measures to prevent any loss of files or data.' Hmmm... Here is the full Beta 3 EULA for you to dissect. Note that the final release has a different EULA that doesn't look that scary, but still mentions things like 'You acquire only a license to use the Software' and such." Personally, I find the "Benchmark Testing" section (under GENERAL TERMS in the final release's EULA) to be pretty irksome.

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  1. Re:We'll see how it holds up vs. GPL by cp.tar · · Score: 3, Funny

    Are you implying that my EULA is unenforceable?

    I'm shocked. Positively shocked.

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  2. Re:We'll see how it holds up vs. GPL by SBrach · · Score: 3, Funny

    No you aren't.

  3. Re:We'll see how it holds up vs. GPL by Vectronic · · Score: 3, Funny

    No he is... I tased him!

  4. Re:We'll see how it holds up vs. GPL by cp.tar · · Score: 2, Funny

    No, you didn't.

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