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Unfortunately, changing the text on your end has no legal effect. It's not a contract unless the other party agrees to your change.
by morninj 11y ago
Unfortunately, changing the text on your end has no legal effect. It's not a contract unless the other party agrees to your change.
- mikeash 11y agoTurning into "not a contract" is a legal effect, though, and typically it's the desired one. When there's a EULA or similar, the company is trying to form a contract with you, usually with lots of unfair terms. If replacing the text with your own and clicking a button that you renamed from Agree to Disagree voids the whole thing, well, mission accomplished. There would only be a problem if the law says that not only does your modification not form a contract, but that you acted in such bad faith that you actually still somehow agreed to the original contract.
- srtjstjsj 11y ago"voiding the whole thing" means you don't have a license to the software either.
- mikeash 11y agoSoftware doesn't necessarily need a license. Purchasing software can be simply a matter of handing over money in exchange for a copy of the software. Free downloads can simply be a matter of downloading a copy of the software. EULAs are everywhere, but not because they're necessary, only because software makers see some advantage in using them.