- From: Serge M. Egelman <egelman@cs.cmu.edu>
- Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 16:43:34 -0700
- To: Brian Erdelyi <brian@clearware.org>
- CC: www-p3p-policy@w3.org
Simson Garfinkel proposed something like this a few years back. There's an article here about it: http://www.simson.net/clips/2004/2004.TR.04.PureSoftware.pdf But other than that, seems like a worthy project. serge Brian Erdelyi wrote: > I'm working on a personal project proposing a way to fight deceptive > software at http://www.clearware.org by helping to make sense of > software end-user license agreements (EULA). P3P and Creative Commons > was part of the inspiration for the idea. The concept is similar to > nutrition facts on food, care labels on clothing and warnings on > hazardous materials... a "software use" label if you will. > > EULA terms and conditions can be grouped into permissions, requirements, > restrictions and functions. I've identified a set of characteristics > that I found in existing EULAs that impact control over the user's > experience, system security and privacy and depict it with a symbol. > > The idea is to translate the laywer readable format (EULA) into a human > readable version (clearware label) and a system readable RDF/XML version > (to automate the use of user preferences similar to P3P and other > possibilities). > > I would appreciate thoughts and suggestions from others on this list, > particularly getting the involvement of software vendors. > > Regards, > Brian Erdelyi
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