Re: cpu-x

On Wed, 15 May 2024 12:43:43 -0400, DFS wrote:

On 5/15/2024 9:56 AM, DFS wrote:

On 5/13/2024 9:50 PM, candycanearter07 wrote:

DFS <nospam@dfs.com> wrote at 18:35 this Saturday (GMT):

 

When have you read a license?

 
I read them every month or so - if they're not GPL and not too long.
 
Last night I came across what I believe is the longest EULA I've ever
seen: 306 lines (removing all blank lines)
 
https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/unreal
 
 
 
By comparison, the GPL3 is 135 lines.

 
 
license word counts
 
Win 11 Pro EULA: 6010   C:\Windows\System32\license.rtf GPL 3          :
5700   www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.en.html Unreal Engine  : 8723 
www.unrealengine.com/en-US/eula/unreal MS Office 2003 : 5309   Help |
About | view EULA SQLite         :    0   public domain Python 3.12.3  :
 392   docs.python.org/3/license.html#psf-license

You're basically making Lawrence's point here. He is correct in saying
that while the people behind those licenses probably won't come after us,
they legally can. It would be to our collective benefit to move away from
proprietary stuff wherever possible, even if we find that the quality is
lacking in one respect or another.