I brought this up before but there were no comments. If you have any kind of the typical bloated EULA boilerplate and you present it the first time the app is run it can take some time to load. I suggested the EULA should be presented at download time on the Market than with the install. Barring that I also thought of a link to my web site with the full EULA and with an "I agree to those terms." Most people would just click "Accept" without reading those laborious EULAs that lawyers insist on. I was just looking at the updated terms for a web site I subscribe to this morning and thinking who the hell could understand those other than a lawyer? It's like before we click on "Accept" we're supposed to send a copy to a lawyer to look at. Maybe some day governments could agree on simplified agreements.
Enforcing a EULA is one thing for the possible piracy. My EULA spells out on the free programs that is certainly OK for people to share them as long as they don't charge for it. You need to declare or you may be flooded with emails asking if it is okay (and I still do even when I spell that out). The other half is limiting any liability for problems incurred running the program. Don't forget that some idiot might try do sue if they use your program and incur data fees. Be sure to spell that out. Most people, of course won't sue. Lawyers will see all kinds of holes in the simple EULAs such as "don't pirate this program and use this program at you're own risk." lbcoder wrote: > How much are you willing to pay to enforce it? > I suspect that you will find that you will NOT enforce it and that > international law doesn't matter since realistically, EULA is nothing > more than a *suggestion*. > > And I can tell you this; unless you are charging THOUSANDS for the > software, your legal costs for enforcing the license will DEFINITELY > be prohibitive, so don't worry about it. Stick in any kind of license > that you think is reasonable, and honorable people will accept it, > regardless of what their local law says and regardless of their > impression of whether or not you can enforce it. > > > On Jul 22, 10:44 am, Jason Van Anden <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> Goggled for Android EULA ... found nothing conclusive. Curious about how >> other devs thoughts ... >> >> Is this up to the developer? >> >> Is there some sort of umbrella EULA for the Android Market? >> >> Given the international nature of the market, etc ... realistically, what is >> the recourse and how much protection does a EULA for an Android app really >> offer? >> >> Thanks, >> Jason >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
