Omg, this. The part time legal thing is happening to me right now.
I’m building a small app for a (multimillion dollar) company. Nothing major. I tell the project manager: “hey, you guys need a EULA to publish in the app store. You can use the std apple one or write your own. Tell me what you want to do.”
This woman comes back to me with: “what do you think we should do?”
Like b#%^!, I don’t know! Why would you want me to tell you how define the legal relationship between you and your customers?
After some prodding, she forwards the request to legal and sends back a DRAFT EULA asks: “Can you review this?”
NO. I cannot review legal documents. I’m horrendously under qualified for that!!!
The correct answer is write one that benefits you and say “well I would like if you used this one, but it seems like it would be very silly of you to do that. You should get one from your legal department if you want one that benefits you.”.
Omg, this. The part time legal thing is happening to me right now.
I’m building a small app for a (multimillion dollar) company. Nothing major. I tell the project manager: “hey, you guys need a EULA to publish in the app store. You can use the std apple one or write your own. Tell me what you want to do.”
This woman comes back to me with: “what do you think we should do?”
Like b#%^!, I don’t know! Why would you want me to tell you how define the legal relationship between you and your customers?
After some prodding, she forwards the request to legal and sends back a DRAFT EULA asks: “Can you review this?”
NO. I cannot review legal documents. I’m horrendously under qualified for that!!!
/end rant
The correct answer is write one that benefits you and say “well I would like if you used this one, but it seems like it would be very silly of you to do that. You should get one from your legal department if you want one that benefits you.”.