Example of proper attitude to legal text intended for a user who would not necessarily be a lawyer (Defender's Quest: Valley of the Forgotten EULA):
A legal question here would be whether the text in ordinary language has legal meaning, and what would have the priority in case of contradiction...
The situation is the same as with Creative Commons licenses. For instance they provide you with Commons Deed http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en where everything is written clearly and Legal Code (full license) http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/legalcode. But the whole thing is mentioned in the disclaimer.
ReplyDeleteI think it should be noted somewhere in this EULA that legal text has a priority. Otherwise ordinary text is a part of the license and has the same legal value.
Nikita, thank you for the comment. I agree on the point that absence of a "priority statement" will render the comments to be legal provisions as well which may raise grounds for some legal controversy.
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