{"id":41,"date":"2005-03-13T09:18:47","date_gmt":"2005-03-13T16:18:47","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=41"},"modified":"2006-05-18T10:43:59","modified_gmt":"2006-05-18T17:43:59","slug":"thou-shalt-not-create-independent-tests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/thou-shalt-not-create-independent-tests\/","title":{"rendered":"Thou Shalt Not Create Independent Tests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>And software companies wonder why we users have trouble taking software end-user license agreements seriously. Roberto Togni actually read the license that accompanies <a href=\"http:\/\/www.on2.com\/vp7.php3\">On2&#8217;s VP7 Decoder<\/a>. It contains this clause:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nYou may NOT:<br \/>\n4.publish or provide any results of tests, including without limitation benchmark tests, run on the Software to any third party without On2&#8217;s prior written consent\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>In fairness to On2, this is not an uncommon clause in EULAs. However, it presents some very curious scenarios. Am I allowed to publish something like this?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nI looked at a VP7 sample and it did not look as good as WMV9, H.264, or even On2&#8217;s own VP6.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Maybe I should write and ask permission. A colleague brought up another point: Since this &#8220;no benchmark tests&#8221; is such a common EULA clause, it should stand to reason that Microsoft&#8217;s Windows Media Encoder carries the same license. It is extremely unlikely that Microsoft would have granted written permission for this whitepaper exercise.<\/p>\n<p><em>Update:<\/em> Again, to be fair, the decoder license (On2&#8217;s Truecast Player) does not appear to mention anything about publishing benchmark tests. That is on the limited trial codec license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General EULA absurdity&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,7,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legalethical","category-on2duck","category-reverse-engineering"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/multimedia.cx\/eggs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}