clause

I agree that the ToS clause is very broad, and that (if the email is real) that the timeframe is short.

The OpenSSL license is not compatible with GPLv2 or GPLv3 due to the obnoxious advertising clause.

Buried in the language of most consumer software and services is a mandatory binding arbitration clause.

That is illegal under the Innocent Passage clause of the UN Law of the Seas.

If you're client doesn't have mutability of obligation clause, that allows this irregardless of notice period, you probably fall under ir35.

Would you sign an industry-wide, lifetime non-compete clause in exchange for employment?

The openssl license has always contained an advertising clause.

So that's why there's tools to push it along, it's not the first time [1] As a stop gap - they can implement a contributor clause starting immediately.

But my non-compete clause is running out at the end of the year and I will create a Mega competitor that is completely open source and non-profit, similar to the Wikipedia model.

Considering there sometimes are in the tech industry clauses in contract that prevent an employee from working in another company active in the same field for X years, could such a clause be applied to government employees?

Or the consistent but completely inane ways that it fails, like refusing to proceed based on not finding a builder for an 'only' or 'except' clause (making it nearly impossible to re-use provisioners and post-provisioners across multiple projects).

IMO it is intended to give a 30,000 ft view of the general terms and it clearly says it's bilaterally non-binding; so if you breached the no-shop clause and they smacked you with their legal bill you could technically tell them to take a hike.

Part of why the militarization of the police is so scary is because most of that equipment is given under a "use it or lose it" clause.

Would a "cannot use for commercial purposes" clause have nipped this one in the bud?

Then experimenter B can freely choose..." That "then" clause occurs inside the axiom, so is part of what is assumed.

For example, I need to pluralise a small set of words, so I write 3-4 clause if-statement and append some "s" characters because I don't see the need to use python-inflection.