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Shrinkwrap contracts or shrinkwrap licenses are boilerplate contracts packaged with products; use of the product is deemed acceptance of the contract. Web-wrap , click-wrap and browse-wrap are related terms which refer to license agreements in software which is downloaded or used over the internet .
An end-user license agreement or EULA (/ ˈ j uː l ə /) is a legal contract between a software supplier and a customer or end-user. The practice of selling licenses to rather than copies of software predates the recognition of software copyright , which has been recognized since the 1970s in the United States.
Among 260 mass market consumer software license agreements in 2010: [5] 91% disclaimed warranties of merchantability or fitness for purpose or said it was "As is" 92% disclaimed consequential, incidental, special or foreseeable damages; 69% did not warrant the software was free of defects or would work as described in the manual
[71] [72] When proprietary software is in direct competition with an open-source alternative, research has found conflicting results on the effect of the competition on the proprietary product's price and quality. [73] For decades, some companies have made servicing of an open-source software product for enterprise users as their business model.
KDE uses Free Software Foundation Europe's Fiduciary Licence Agreement [50] of which (FLA-1.2) states in section 3.3: FSFE shall only exercise the granted rights and licences in accordance with the principles of Free Software as defined by the Free Software Foundations.
Software copyright is the application of copyright in law to machine-readable software. While many of the legal principles and policy debates concerning software copyright have close parallels in other domains of copyright law, there are a number of distinctive issues that arise with software.
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A standard form contract (sometimes referred to as a contract of adhesion, a leonine contract, [a] a take-it-or-leave-it contract, or a boilerplate contract) is a contract between two parties, where the terms and conditions of the contract are set by one of the parties, and the other party has little or no ability to negotiate more favorable terms and is thus placed in a "take it or leave it ...
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