Several months ago I wrote representative in the state legislature over this issue. At first they had not heard of it because it had not been introduced into the state legislature yet, but after several letters with an aide to my representative they did research and they contacted the state's attorney(sp?) general and got his spin on it. He had been following this issue for some time and opposes legislation... this is the good news.
Here is the bad news... if any state passes the ammendment to the Unform Commerce Code a software vendor can still force that the licence be interpreted under that state's law even though the user's state has not passed the ammendment unless the state had passed legislation to forbid that.
Just my two cents... I've been reading about it in infoworld and other IS applications for some time. Corporations are really worried about this because it could have the effect of dis-allowing transfers of licences during aquisitions and other things they do not want to deal with.
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Here is the bad news ... if any state passes the ammendment to the Unform Commerce Code a software vendor can still force that the licence be interpreted under that state's law even though the user's state has not passed the ammendment unless the state had passed legislation to forbid that.
Just my two cents ... I've been reading about it in infoworld and other IS applications for some time. Corporations are really worried about this because it could have the effect of dis-allowing transfers of licences during aquisitions and other things they do not want to deal with.
- subsolar