EULAlyzer - EULA執照分析儀

張貼在2008年8月16日在5:18上午

猜測什麼您增加了到您機器。您是否真正地知道？您在某一較少人知免費軟件的油滑的片斷，可疑的網站發現，也許有一些「額外」您沒有注意。但它任意認為，…正確？

不幸地，計算機用戶能分成使用協定，在安裝軟件片斷以後，也許包含難瞭解段落和期限。在水池的較不複雜的末端，詞組像「我們授予您權利…」視同對什麼用戶(您)能做與軟件包。而詞到作用的「我們預留權利…」賦予軟件製作商權力規定條件為使用軟件。當字詞繼續，使用協定開始足够容易地，但可能變得複雜。

一些開放來源和免費軟件執照可以措辭，因此用戶能做什麼請他們。這些是較不共同的。典型地您將遇到一個長的文件，是令人沮喪讀。若您速度它上升和能有問題的肉和土豆？目標是，當然，發現，如果軟件是真正地自由的; 或，如果它運載奇怪的規定。

我及早寫了一個崗位關於怎樣手工讀和 瞭解終端用戶使用協定，但您現在不必須做那。

EULAlyzer個人(為私人住宅使用)工具，從Javacoolsoftware.com，是幫助的一項巨大公共事業解釋使用協定。要幫助武裝自己在詞小衝突， EULAlyzer將分析執照的文本并且尋找特殊詞組和詞。結果將顯示用戶軟件是否被瞭解是安全的，或者，如果他們應該有關。記住，并且javacoolsoftware.com網站重申這點， EULAlyzer不是法律顧問的一個替補，當它來到使用協定的法律解釋時。

在安裝EULAlyzer以後，起動節目，在您安裝一個特殊節目之前。在本例中，我掃描NMap節目的執照。當您到達在受歡迎的屏幕時，點擊「掃瞄一個新的使用協定」鏈接在屏幕的中心部分。

您將看見的下一個窗是空白的，至於大部分。這是點，當您能用EULAlyzer工具時停止，并且劫掠使用協定或者開始設施從另一個節目。對拷貝和漿糊的憂慮作為EULAlyzer不讓用戶扯拽a (被塑造的十字準線)標誌從EULAlyzer，在執照文本帶領它進入分析部分。

執照現在填裝分析屏幕的空的部分。您在軟件執照之內有一個更好的接口閱讀文本; 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.