EULAs

Hi,

Anybody here know anything about EULAs? I'll need one, and I don't know what to do about it. Can I buy one? Can I just copy one from, say, Office and change all the names and addresses? Do I have to get a solicitor involved?

As far as I am aware, a EULA is just a (binding) statement setting out the conditions to which the user must agree before using the software and disclaiming just about everything. As such, there's no "copyright" and so surely I should be able to just use as a template any old EULA I like, or make one up if I so choose. I just have to be aware that this could come back to bite me if something happens and I end up in court, not properly protected because I didn't get a solicitor to look over it first.

Any comments / etc?

Cheers

zaza

I had the same problem and here what i've done:

First, I've carefully read EULA from products that, at my sense, would be well "law" protected. Windows 2k, Xp, Visual Studio for examples.

Second, I've look to see what's was relevant from each (yeah it's written in the Windows Eula that you cannot use Windows to support nuclear stuff, like a central or something similar)

Third, Look which privileges you want to grant and thoses you wish to keep. (Do you want someone to resell what you're selling or it must be a final user?)

Fourth, I've took some part of some Eula modifying it for my purposes while capturing the "essence" of the needed eula's topic and made on for my product.


Other options: Hire a computer consultant / lawyer and pay 150$ / hour to have one eula


Hope it can help