On 2013-08-30 at 01:08 -0700, Ask Bjørn Hansen wrote: > The website now has a terms of service document for how to use the NTP Pool -- > > http://www.ntppool.org/tos.html
You'd need to consult professional legal advice to be sure, but my loose understanding (at a level of "knowing what laws might bite in the field I work in, to ask a lawyer then") is that if a contract says "we can change this at any time, without notice" then US legal precedence says "that's not a contract, we're throwing the whole thing out and leaving you legally unprotected, perhaps with some prejudice because you tried to pull a fast one". The point of a contract, even a shrink wrap contract, is that it locks down the terms so that both parties can be in agreement. The moment that one side can unilaterally change the terms, it's not a contract, nor a ToS, even if it calls itself such, and AIUI judges look unfavourably upon such pseudo-contracts. So point 6 probably needs some professional attention from people skilled in law in the jurisdiction declared in point 8 to figure out how much notice or agreement is needed to make the rest of the contract sufficiently unlikely to be thrown out. -Phil _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
