I recently had a software salesman visiting me at work, to install and show me how to use some new software… during the course of the installation, some 3rd-party stuff was being installed and I skipped past the EULA screen, saying ‘Does anybody ever read these things?’ in a flippant tone…
his response ‘Oh, they’re not valid outside of the states anyway - that’s why we don’t have one the european version of our software!’
Anyone know if this is true?
You want something really funny? They may or may not be valid inside the US of A. See, some of those Eulas may require you to give up some legal rights the programmers cannot legally requireyou to give up. I don’t think it has ever been tested in Court.
Most software will have a EULA specific to the country it’s localized for. e.g., if you install the German version, you get the German, EULA.
On the software I’ve worked on, the U.S. version contains 6-12 or more country-specific EULA’s. The installer will ask what country you’re in, then display the correct EULA for that country.
I thought there would probably be country-specific variations… I wonder why this company doesn’t bother with those? strange
This begs the question, what happens if you take, for example, a USA product - unopened and without having affirmed the EULA, to, say, Argentina, and operate the product? Assuming there’s no language about being in Argentina…?