This (via O’Reilly Radar) should be a Firefox plugin. And it should be called EULAnalyser, because it’s much easier to say ;-)
This (via O’Reilly Radar) should be a Firefox plugin. And it should be called EULAnalyser, because it’s much easier to say ;-)
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:
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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
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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).
Brian Ewins: MediaWiki has a pretty nice way of displaying diffs…