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Netscape Loses Privacy Dispute
News Netscape Communications customers suing the company for privacy invasion are not bound by an end-user licence agreement forcing them into arbitration, a US federal appeals court panel ruled on Tuesday.
[October 2, 2002, 9:28]
Sun Hands Cobalt An Open-source Lifeline
News The release means that all the custom user interface and back-end code for the Qube 3 and RaQ 550 server appliances is now available under a BSD-style licence. The Cobalt community was handed a lifeline on Christmas Eve when Sun Microsystems...
[January 2, 2004, 10:55]
Nigerian Company Seeks $20m OLPC 'damages'
News Documents published on open-source legal site Groklaw indicate that solicitors acting on behalf of Lancor demanded $20m (£10m) in damages from OLPC on 6 August, 2007, claiming that patents registered by Lancor for its Konyin Multilingual Keyboard...
[January 3, 2008, 11:12]
Novell NDS For Linux Arrives Ahead Of Schedule
News When ZDNet US asked about and looked around, however, no-one was unable to find anyone that could sell a licence for the NDS Linux programs. What ZDNet US did find out was that although Novell has said at least part of the NDS for Linux code would...
[March 15, 2000, 11:00]
Microsoft Draws Fire For Stealth Test Programme
News People can decline the download at that point, but experts believe that most won't understand the licence and that many don't read user licence details. Microsoft notes that this is "pre-release software" in the user licence, which is displayed...
[June 14, 2006, 9:15]
Court: Network Associates Can't Gag Users
News New York state Supreme Court Justice Marilyn Shafer issued a ruling, made public this week, prohibiting the security software specialist from trying to use its end-user licence agreements to ban product reviews or benchmark tests.
[January 20, 2003, 11:03]
French Opt For Laissez-faire Linux
Talkback Its barbaric EULA (End-User Licence Agreement), endless changes of file format, useless features, broken features, incompatibilities with previous versions, very high licence fee and the fact that they still do not do PDF two years after OO are...
[November 13, 2005, 13:43]
Microsoft In The Hot Seat In New Net Flap
News Microsoft contends the postings violate the end-user licence agreement governing Microsoft's specifications for its Kerberos add-ons. These are our standard agreements for our EULAs (end user licence agreements), the same kind of agreements that...
[May 12, 2000, 9:02]
Software Vendors Forcing Unfair Licences On Users
News The NCC also said it's concerned that many software producers have licence terms that protect their interests over those of the end user. Of 25 software packages surveyed by the National Consumer Council (NCC), 14 had no mention in their packaging...
[February 21, 2008, 9:33]
F-Secure Combines Antivirus And Firewall
News The F-Secure Anti Virus Client Security package is available from Wednesday and costs £35 for an end user licence or £1,500 for a 100 user licence. To combat the threat of "blended" virus attacks -- such as MSBlast -- security company F-Secure on...
[September 4, 2003, 8:29]
Greeting Card Virus Brings Bad Tidings
News In the precedent-setting case Specht et al.vs Netscape Communications, the court found that two tests must be satisfied for a licence to be binding: the user must be aware of the licence, and the user must be required to accept it in some way.
[November 13, 2002, 11:28]
IBM Targets Smaller Firms With Flat Database Fee
News The flat $3,899 licence charge for an unlimited number of customers will be available at the end of October. The flat $3,899 licence fee for an unlimited number of users can be applied to two-processor servers.
[October 20, 2003, 10:20]
SCO Ready To Hit Australian Linux Users
News The SCO Group's Australian and New Zealand boss, Kieran O'Shaughnessy, told ZDNet Australia late on Friday afternoon that he was preparing to fly to London to finalise the vendor's strategies for securing licence agreements with large commercial...
[January 9, 2004, 9:35]
Microsoft's Antitrust Concessions Are 'pointless'
News It cannot be based on proprietary software model [where companies pay a per-user licence fee] as this is the opposite of our business model," said Piana. A firm involved in the market testing of Microsoft's server interoperability licence on...
[July 13, 2005, 17:55]
Google Denies Ownership Of Users' Words
News Read in their entirety, our terms of service ensure that, for documents you expressly choose to share with others, we have the proper licence to display those documents to the selected users and format documents properly for different displays.
[September 12, 2007, 9:39]
Sony DRM Rootkit 'legal In The UK'
News The licence agreement probably provides "enough wriggle room" for Sony, as it informs users about the software, the purpose of the software and excludes itself from liability, said Sommer. For example, Robertson said the Office of Fair Trading (OFT...
[November 4, 2005, 13:45]
SealedMedia Protects Office From Digital Leaks
News Once "sealed", documents can be freely copied and saved, but before they can be opened, the user needs to enter a password so that access rights can be verified by the licence server. It is capable of protecting all Microsoft Office documents as...
[February 17, 2004, 15:25]
Microsoft Angered By UK Developer
News When asked for the details of the ban he said: "I'm not going to get into interpretation of the licence agreement here, or a 'he said, we said' discussion. There are eight million users of Express, and only one person interpreting the licence...
[June 1, 2007, 10:03]
CRM On Demand: A Host Of Problems?
News Aspective currently offers a hosted Microsoft CRM package to small businesses from £79 per user per month (plus Microsoft's licence fees). Siebel CRM on Demand starts at $90 per user per month, while Oracle Ebusiness Suite Special Edition can be...
[December 8, 2003, 11:05]
Borland Admits Licensing Mistake
News Customers flocked to the Borland Web site earlier this week to voice complaints about an audit clause within a new product licence agreement. The clause was written into both enterprise-level and end-user licensing agreements.
[January 16, 2002, 10:21]
