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Software Licensing: The Hidden Threat to Information Security
Richard Forno, 2002-01-23

Software licensing agreements may contain stipulations that could jeopardize your network's security.

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About license agreements 2002-01-30
mmckay@iscubed.com
The US has the same general concept as Europe, when it comes to interpreting contract law. If the clause is illegal, it is thrown out (which may or may not effect the other clauses).

It gets really interesting the gray areas, for example a clause prohibiting reverse engineering is common in co...

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