Is the contract restricted to the buyers, or to the "any 3rd party" of the GPL?

Posted Jan 27, 2026 10:11 UTC (Tue) by Wol (subscriber, #4433)
In reply to: Is the contract restricted to the buyers, or to the "any 3rd party" of the GPL? by farnz
Parent article: SFC v. VIZIO: who can enforce the GPL?

> the interesting edge cases all crop up where the licence restricts something that is lawful in the absence of the licence as a whole (e.g. if it purports to place restrictions on reverse engineering).

Especially in a EULA, if the customer has already paid for the software before they agree to the licence! As I have a habit of saying, that's fraud. With a small "f", not necessarily in law, but a pretty clear case of "obtaining money/whatever by deception".

Cheers,
Wol