Do you read software license agreements?

[TimberWolf]

Some of the disclaimers on software products can be an eye opener, and well buried, for instance I recall reading a Versign agreement and it disclaimed liability for just about everything imaginable related to the product, including its intended use.

[Sysman]

From the iTunes licence agreement:

You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.

So we're OK to use it for conventional weapons then?

[Churchill]

what? proof please

Oh dear...

[chef]

It's a well known fact in certain circles that the North Koreans used an array of iPods to calculate the fuzing for their nukes.

Honest.

They were all set to play "Ashes and Diamonds" from "The Final Cut".

what? proof please

[WotNxt]

Must be great chatting to you at parties!

lol, you are probably right!!!!

[SueEllen]

I've only read them twice.

Just so I could copy and paste the relevant points out in an email to tell an idiot support person who was trying to get me to delete software off my machine that I needed to use to produce the application they wanted to produce, had an Opensource license.

[Clippy]

I used to read them religiously but now I just look for the salient points or any deviation from the standard clauses - if a brief assessment of the risks and impacts of not doing so justify it.

Must be great chatting to you at parties!

[Churchill]

Where's the "yeah, yeah, 'course I do" box?

[gingerjedi]

From the iTunes licence agreement:

You also agree that you will not use these products for any purposes prohibited by United States law, including, without limitation, the development, design, manufacture or production of nuclear, missiles, or chemical or biological weapons.

I can't get the feckin thing to sort compilation albums properly so how the feck I would even begin to use it for these purposes is beyond me???

[lilelvis2000]

Its usually pointless to read these things. They are usually photocopies of Microsoft's..and if the the print is too small to read...and you get taken to court...it is a possible defence. (possibly)

[WotNxt]

I used to read them religiously but now I just look for the salient points or any deviation from the standard clauses - if a brief assessment of the risks and impacts of not doing so justify it.

If it was a £15,000pa client-server system with [per seat/per concurrent user] and/or per processor licensing model being used to process mission critical financial data then I guess I would read the licence fairly carefully.

If it was a shareware image editing application I was installing at home for personal use then all I would be interested in was how long I could use it for before I would need to pay for it and I would "suck it and see" on the rest.

[chef]

you should get a post count +1 for filling in a poll, it takes time, we shoudl be rewarded

[BrilloPad]

I dont have time to read that rubbish! I am too busy posting carp on TPD.

[TimberWolf]

There’s often a license agreement to agree before installing software. Do you read it?

Poll follows.