Short form for a EULA
End User License Agreements (EULAs) and Terms of Service (TOS) are generally long, turgid legalese that nobody wants to read. To save you the trouble of having to wade through such mind-numbing prose, I offer you the generic form as translated by John Dvorak:
Generally speaking, a software license and various terms-of-service and terms-of-use agreements say the following:
- Whatever you think we said, or whatever we said, about the product may have nothing to do with reality, and you agree not to expect that it does.
- No matter what happens, including damage to your equipment or even someone’s death, you agree not to blame us even if it is our fault.
- If we are a Web site and you use it, no matter what bad things happen, it is not our fault.
- If you contribute anything at all to a site or system, we own it.
- You will never sue us for anything, ever.
Now you know what you agreed to.