Proposal

[Russ Allbery]

Kai Henningsen <kaih@khms.westfalen.de> writes:
> rra@stanford.edu (Russ Allbery) wrote:

>> The hangup in this case is likely to be the click-through license on
>> that PDF file, which has some highly obnoxious clauses in it even above
>> and beyond not allowing redistribution.

> From the last discussion about said license, it essentially said "we
> won't be sued for that standard, no matter what you use it for", in
> lawyerese. I thought that was entirely reasonable.

It also says that if someone sues them, you pay their legal fees.  That's
the bit that's rather iffier.

I should clarify that I didn't consider it a sufficient drawback to avoid
buying it personally, but I can understand how other people would be leery
of it.

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Russ Allbery (rra@stanford.edu)             < http://www.eyrie.org/~eagle/ >