Sony's unsolicited EULA email tells PlayStation users their digital games are licensed, not owned, arriving just as the #PSBlackout boycott kicks off.

The relevant section is blunt. “The Software is licensed to you, not sold,” the EULA states. “You are granted a limited, non-exclusive, non-transferable, and personal license to play or use the Software for your private, non-commercial use on the system or device it was intended for.”

The terms also restrict renting, modifying, or obtaining games through unauthorised means. Nothing in there is new, technically. Sony’s EULA has always said this. The timing is what makes it land differently right now.

  • givesomefucks@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    3 days ago

    All you have to do is change the name and remove any trademarked branding from it.

    So…

    They have to change it to legally sell it?

    Then they didn’t own it.

    Although, I guess thanks for explaining what a “bullshit fork” is, I thought that wouldn’t need explaining on here to be honest

    • Auli@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      1 day ago

      Here is an easier one with FOSS you could just do whatever you want on the repo. Which is not true as the maintainer manages it.