Re:Fork: A fast and friendly Git client for Mac and Windows
by MarkSweep on Wednesday July 24, 2019 @04:48PM
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> Surely this applies to anyone using a piece of US-made software living outside the US. And without a governing law clause, isn't it always ambiguous?
I don't think most software licenses say you can't violate some country's laws while using it. It is already illegal to do the illegal thing.
> Who am I to judge. That's what they want.
I'm not judging either. I am not able to confidently follow these terms, so I won't use the software. No hard feelings.
I'm guessing that the license author's intention was to avoid legal liability for people doing illegal things with their software. Usually this is addressed with some language in the license about limitation of liability or or indemnification. For example, see section 3.8 of Atlassian's software agreement:
Surely this applies to anyone using a piece of US-made software living outside the US. And without a governing law clause, isn't it always ambiguous?
Why does this agreement cover how I use third party services and who defines what qualifies as interfering?
Who am I to judge. That's what they want.
How far does my obligation to not allow others to reverse engineer the application go? What rights might third parties have under Czech law that I have to worry about while using the software?
Now that's a good question and the license should be clearer on that.