More EULA Stupidity

More EULA Stupidity

Weather Underground has a Dashboard Widget for MacOS (basically, a little desktop display that shows the weather and five-day forecast). The EULA contains a standard no-reverse-engineering clause:

You may not alter, merge, modify, adapt or translate the Software, or decompile, reverse engineer, disassemble, or otherwise reduce the Software to a human-perceivable form.

The problem is that dashboard widgets just use HTML, JavaScript, and CSS. They’re just mini-web page.

Or, to put it in non-techie terms: hey, jackasses! The thing that I’m not allowed to translate into human-readable form is already in human-readable form. Dumbasses.