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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
by MarkSweep 7y ago
> 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:
https://www.atlassian.com/legal/software-license-agreement https://www.atlassian.com/legal/software-license-agreement