[Zope] Can you forbid a piece of software from being reviewed?

Jerry Spicklemire jerry@spicklemire.com
Fri, 10 Mar 2000 08:41:02 -0500


You can set any terms you like in your use license. Whether they are
enforcable in a civil court is a separate question. For example, all
through the '80s Oracle Corp. had a restriction from including Oracle
product in any product comparison, such as benchmarking. 

Sometime in the early '90s Oracle Corp. lifted that restriction. It may
have something to do with the fact that Oracle was finally running fast
enough to look good next to Informix, et. al. 

Microsoft picked up on this mode and had similar restrictions inserted into
SQL Server licenses. I didn't know about that part of Microsoft's license
until I heard Larry Ellison talking on a radio interview, blasting Uncle
Bill for this dispicable practise!