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Is your Windows license legal? Should you even care?

Microsoft has made Windows licensing and activation ridiculously complex. Here's what you need to know.

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I've pointed out in a couple of replies over the past day, but it's worth mentioning in a top-level post, too, and starting off a couple of points.

These are #CrowdStrike's general terms and conditions. You want to be looking at §8.2 and §8.6.

https://crowdstrike.com/terms-conditions/

The disclaimer of warranty is a normal thing in software licence agreements. But were any of its corporate users violating the not-to-be-used conditions? Was that negligence on their parts if so?

#law #USLaw #SoftwareLicence

CrowdStrike Terms And Conditions | CrowdStrike

These CrowdStrike Terms and Conditions are a master agreement that cover all CrowdStrike products and services but provisions regarding specific products or services apply only to the extent you have purchased, accessed or used such products or services.

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On the topic of #FOSS? Is there an addon that attempts to check javascript on pages against scripts that might be in #git repositories and based on #softwareLicence?

There is the #integrityChecking attribute in #HTML which is good for some situations, but we've not ever seen any #licenceAttribute used specifically for javascript.

Thinking of avenues for allowing #javascript in very specific circumstances such as whether, #GPL and matches a pre-approved repo.

Maybe this problem is too hard?

[en] Do Companies Still not Understand Software Licences?
Prof. Riehle talks about two apparently wrong interpretations of an Apache licence in one and the same case

https://bayave.com/2023/04/11/minio-vs-weka-on-apache-2-0-license-violation/

#software #licence #license #softwarelicence #softwarelicense #apache #licenceviolation #licenseviolation

MinIO vs. Weka on Apache-2.0 license violation dispute

MinIO, provider of cloud software, has claimed that Weka, provider of more cloud software, is violating the terms of the Apache-2.0 license of their (MinIO’s) open source code. Both blog stat…

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