Quoting Robert Osfield ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Does anybody have a link to the Microsoft SDK EULA's in question, I'd > like to study the document.
The licensing page at which Microsoft initially made the full EULA available disappeared shortly after the story broke (June 2001) -- and you will see by visiting http://web.archive.org/web/*/http://msdn.microsoft.com/msdn-files/027/001/516/eula_mit.htm that some sort of clever forced redirect has removed it even from the Internet Archive. A number of news sites at the time removed posted copies of the EULA from their Web forums on grounds that Microsoft Corporation asserts copyright over the EULA text and that the fair use defence might not cover mirroring of the entire EULA. I would suggest calling your nearby Microsoft Corporation office, let them know you're interested in some particular product, and ask for a copy of its EULA as part of your product analysis. (For one thing, the firm has been known to apply significantly different licence texts in various parts of the world, not to mention the diversity across its product line.) In particular, please don't assume that the Microsoft trial-balloon clause of the week is in all Microsoft licences, thereafter: Some of these things vanish as quickly as they arrive. One resource to know about, though it doesn't answer your current question: The New Zealand law firm of Clendon Feeney, Barristers & Solicitors, being somewhat more certain of their ground than most news and comment Web sites, maintain an archive of the full text of proprietary software EULAs: http://proprietary.clendons.co.nz/ (Please help them expand their archive, by sending e-text of appropriate EULAs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .) -- Cheers, "He who hesitates is frost." Rick Moen -- Inuit proverb [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3
