EULAlyzer - EULA执照分析仪

张贴在2008年8月16日在5:18上午

猜测什么您增加了到您机器。您是否真正地知道？您在某一较少人知免费软件的油滑的片断，可疑的网站发现，也许有一些“额外”您没有注意。但它任意认为，…正确？

不幸地，计算机用户能分成使用协定，在安装软件片断以后，也许包含难了解段落和期限。在水池的较不复杂的末端，词组象“我们授予您权利…” 视同对什么用户(您)能做与软件包。而词到作用的“我们预留权利…” 赋予软件制作商权力规定条件为使用软件。当字词继续，使用协定开始足够容易地，但可能变得复杂。

一些开放来源和免费软件执照可以措辞，因此用户能做什么请他们。这些是较不共同的。典型地您将遇到一个长的文件，是令人沮丧读。若您速度它上升和能有问题的肉和土豆？目标是，当然，发现，如果软件是真正地自由的; 或，如果它运载奇怪的规定。

我及早写了一个岗位关于怎样手工读和 了解终端用户使用协定，但您现在不必须做那。

EULAlyzer个人(为私人住宅使用)工具，从Javacoolsoftware.com，是帮助的一项巨大公共事业解释使用协定。要帮助武装自己在词小冲突， EULAlyzer将分析执照的文本并且寻找特殊词组和词。结果将显示用户软件是否被了解是安全的，或者，如果他们应该有关。记住，并且javacoolsoftware.com网站重申这点， EULAlyzer不是法律顾问的一个替补，当它来到使用协定的法律解释时。

在安装EULAlyzer以后，起动节目，在您安装一个特殊节目之前。在本例中，我扫描NMap节目的执照。当您到达在受欢迎的屏幕时，点击“扫瞄一个新的使用协定”链接在屏幕的中心部分。

您将看见的下一个窗是空白的，至于大部分。这是点，当您能用EULAlyzer工具时停止，并且劫掠使用协定或者开始设施从另一个节目。对拷贝和浆糊的忧虑作为EULAlyzer不让用户扯拽a (被塑造的十字准线)标志从EULAlyzer，在执照文本带领它进入分析部分。

执照现在填装分析屏幕的空的部分。您在软件执照之内有一个更好的接口阅读文本; however the point in using EULAlyzer is to let it do the work. Click on the Analyze button to accomplish this.

When EULAlyzer has completed its scan, it will turn over to a results section and describe what it found. It rates what it found on an "Interest ID" system. What this boils down to is how much attention should be paid to specific sections of the license. Based upon a scale of one to ten, your results range from unimportant to suspicious.

Looking at the above screen shot, EULAlyzer gives the NMap license a five in three different sections. The concerns it brings to the table is matters surrounding the phrase "Third Party" and website addresses. Ultimately, it falls on the individual user to determine if these details are important or not.

For the purpose of comparison, I began, stressing the word began, to install Kazaa; simply to scan the license agreements. To illustrate a point, you have less paperwork to look over when buying a car. Back to the subject at hand, the first (of several) license agreements made EULAlyzer light up like a fireworks show. I cannot expand them all in this view, but in contrast to NMap, there were several Interest ID ratings above a five.

After one is finished scanning a license or two, they can bounce over to the statistics section to get a count on how many licenses they have been through. This is just a simple statistics counter, which tracks the Interest ID, Length, and Words and Phrases totals.

I would highly recommend this tool to anyone who downloads freeware, shareware, and other tools off the Internet. For that matter, anyone who installs any type of software should have this utility handy. There are commercial programs that may indiscriminately contact the Internet, and not necessarily tell you up front. EULAlyzer can help people take a look at what they are getting into, for better or worse; before they click on the Finish button of a new software setup.