October 17, 2005

EULAlyser

This (via O'Reilly Radar) should be a Firefox plugin. And it should be called EULAnalyser, because it's much easier to say ;-)

Posted by gerv at October 17, 2005 11:05 AM
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An idea I had... as well as the 'view license' option, it should be possible to save licenses that you've previously thought were ok, and show you a differences to the one most similar to the one you're now looking at. eg, (using [[ ]] for highlights here):

This license is similar to the license for "X Windows" you accepted, with these differences:
===
Copyright (c) [[2005, MyCorp LLC]]
All rights reserved.
...
provided with the distribution.
Neither the name of the [[MyCorp LLC]] nor the names of its contributors may be
used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific
===

Or, display changes side by side instead of a diff. You could show similarity to rejected licenses too, I guess - some people might want to avoid GPL'd code for example. (people are weird that way).

Posted by: Brian Ewins at October 17, 2005 2:21 PM

Brian Ewins: MediaWiki has a pretty nice way of displaying diffs...

Posted by: Peng at October 19, 2005 2:19 AM