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by Jarulf on Wed Apr 13, 2005 at 11:15:19 PM PDT

I think this is an important and interesting point about the GPL you make. It is in fact, in my point of view, a true copyright license in that it actually grants you a license to part of the right the copyright holder has. It is a true license or permission to do something you could otherwise not do.

A EULA on the other hand, has minimal connection to the copyright or exclusive rights of the copyright holder. It typically does not at all grant you any additional copyright related rights. Actually it, normally, tries to restrict you in uncountable ways. It is, again in my point of view, a normal contract set up regulating (restricting) your behaviour.

The fact that both happens to contain the word "license" should not fool people into believing they are similar or about the same thing, and in the case of EULA, it is actually a bit bad naming.

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