What? You don’t read the EULA?

By Rick

Tell me it ain’t so, Joe! Any good lawyer will tell you to always read the EULA (End User Licensing Agreement) before installing a new piece of software.  It’s for your own good.  For instance here’s the EULA for the Photoshop Action Pack by Ben Long:

You can use these actions for anything you like, and you can give them to your friends and co-workers (or even your enemies, if your experience of the actions leads you to believe that that’s where the real worth of this software lies). However, if you give them to someone else, you must give them the whole package including the installer, documentation, sample workflows, and a kiss on the cheek. You must then stand on one foot and cluck like a chicken. (Man, I can see why people want to be lawyers. Once you’ve got someone under your licensing power, you can make them do anything. But I digress…)

Failure to comply with this license will result in absolutely no consequences of any kind, as far as I know of. I’m mostly just writing this because the Apple Package Maker (the program used to create these installers) had this big blank spot where the license agreement goes, and I couldn’t figure out how to get rid of it, so I thought I’d just fill it instead. Besides, I was so distracted earlier by finishing the Filter By File Type action, that I forgot to go put the laundry in the dryer, so now I have to wait for it to finish so I can make the bed and go to sleep. I guess if I was actually a lawyer, I could hire or coerce someone into doing that for me.

Hat tip to Biephemera.

 

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