I am looking for information about providing a license, or ‘terms of use’, for a web application. The Wikipedia article is very limited, and it seems that unlike ‘downloadable’ software (or perhaps ‘installable’ software, for lack of a better term), for which there is much more information, not so much has been written specifically for the licensing of web applications.
Would you say that hiring a lawyer to construct a legally sound ‘terms of use’, or disclaimer, for your web application is absolutely necessary?
Someone asked: Which jurisdiction? My response here is: World-wide. I guess this opens up another topic, i.e. what jurisdictional limits you should take into consideration.
Hire a lawyer. Undesirable (and costly) as it seems, it can cost you a helluva lot more to get your TOS wrong.