You might want to look at the standard license terms Apple applies to apps on the App Stores: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/appstore/dev/stdeula/ It covers most of what you're asking except it offers no warranty at all, rather than a limited one. It also covers some things you might not have thought of, while being relatively short as licenses go.
> In the UK, AFAIK, there is no particular reason not to simply sell as > an individual, always provided one can limit one’s liability through a > contract. You can always disclaim liability in the license agreement but that doesn't guarantee a court won't decide you're liable anyway. Depending on the nature of the software you're selling and the risk of potential liability you perceive you might want to either use a limited company or get some product liability insurance. For most software I wouldn't be bothered though. Mark -- Mark Wilcox m...@sorcery-ltd.co.uk On Wed, Jan 7, 2015, at 04:04 AM, Graham Samuel wrote: > Hi all - this may be naive, but I don’t recall a recent discussion on > this list and I don’t know where to turn. > > The recent discussion on licensing centering round the GPL and the > different editions of LC is interesting, but I rather want to extend > it to get some advice about simple commercial licensing. > > All the software I’ve ever written for sale to date has been published > by a separate publisher: I have retained the copyright and received > royalties, so I have not worried overmuch about the terms and > conditions which the ultimate users have to sign up to. That and the > fact that my publishers are very very old friends, so there is a very > high level of trust between us, means that my own contractual position > has never worried me. > > Now however I’m looking at a different situation, which is publishing > something on my own account. The ‘something’ is potentially a number > of programs (OK, apps if you must) made with LC Commercial versions, > for which I expect to be paid. I also have a situation where I am the > developer, not the copyright owner, and where the copyright owner has > the same sort of ambition to sell his product in the open market. We > are both clueless about what kind of license agreement to include in > our products. We could both be using the same contract (since I’m > trying to advise him) except that I’m based in the UK (or at any rate > the European Union) and he’s based in the US. In both cases, what is > needed is as simple a contract as possible which provides a very > limited warranty, bans unreasonable copying and denies all forms of > consequential liability. > > It seems to me that there must be pro-forma contracts out there, > applicable to sole traders (this is UK term, not sure what it would be > in the US), but I don’t know how to find them. Furthermore I notice > that several active contributors to this list sell the products > through a company, and not as individuals. In the UK, AFAIK, there is > no particular reason not to simply sell as an individual, always > provided one can limit one’s liability through a contract. In the US, > it may be different. > > Is anyone out there willing to discuss this and maybe discuss the > steps they went through, the decisions they made, and how they got the > wording of their license terms? > > TIA for any further info > > Graham > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit > this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
