Timeline for Reverse engineering clause in Careers terms of service?
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| Jan 22, 2010 at 20:12 | comment | added | Brian Campbell | @Michael Their licences are copyright licenses; they specify requirements I must follow if I wish to copy jQuery or WMD, modify them, or distribute them. The Stack Overflow Careers terms of service is a contract, that I must agree to if I wish to file my resume with Stack Overflow Careers. A contract can impose additional limitations beyond what a third-party copyright license implies (for instance, a non-compete agreement could prevent me from working on jQuery or WMD, too). If you have no instances of intentional obfuscation, why not remove that part of the ToS until it's necessary? | |
| Jan 22, 2010 at 18:48 | comment | added | Michael Pryor | It doesn't seem possible for our TOS to restrict your rights with regards to jQuery and WMD since they already have their own licenses. This is just to cover cases where we've intentionally obfuscated something, which as far as I know as of this date, there are no instances. We'd have to take Jeff to court first anyway: blog.stackoverflow.com/2009/01/wmd-editor-reverse-engineered | |
| Jan 22, 2010 at 18:41 | comment | added | squillman | @Jeff: your legal team has crack? I think I want in. | |
| Jan 22, 2010 at 18:40 | comment | added | Brian Campbell | @Michael Even if it is similar to other terms of service, I disagree with such clauses in those terms of service as well. And there are many terms of service I've seen that are less onerous than these ones. | |
| Jan 22, 2010 at 18:37 | comment | added | Brian Campbell | Even if it's only there for malicious intent, if I agree to the terms of service, then I have agreed not to do any de-minification at all. I do not like agreeing to things that I will not follow; if I say that I will do something, I will do it, if I say I won't, I won't. By agreeing to these terms of service, I would be agreeing to something that I would rather not agree with; even if nothing will ever come of it, I don't like being dishonest. | |
| Jan 22, 2010 at 18:37 | comment | added | Jeff Atwood | Oh, don't be so sure.. have you met our crack legal team? meta.stackexchange.com/questions/10630/… | |
| Jan 22, 2010 at 18:35 | comment | added | Michael Pryor | "It's probably there only for malicious intents." Correct. It's also similar to almost any other TOS. | |
| Jan 22, 2010 at 18:04 | history | answered | Andreas Bonini | CC BY-SA 2.5 |