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The Petalinux third party EULA from Xilinx is 287MB of raw ASCII text.
To compare, a King James Bible is about 4.3MB.
Average speeding speed reportedly peaks around 350 wpm.
Approximately 780,000 words in the bible (average word length is thus about 6).
So the average person could in theory read a bible through in about 37 hrs, or reading for 8 hours a day, about 5 days.
To read through this very important license agreement, at the same rate, would take just shy of 300 days (with no days off).
I'm told online that company legal reps start at about $100 an hour. So we're looking at an estimated low end cost to review the EULA by legal of $238,000.
Yeah. I'm sure every company using Petalinx does that.
@tursilion Common tactic. Acres of boilerplate. AI now makes generating this trivial. And, some can and will hide neat traps in there. I read about one that when two clauses were combined meant the charges went up by the standard percentage amount every year, but the technical start date was moved back decades, so the calculation was something like 3% over inflation for 25 years, applied to the small headline figure! Obviously this became a huge sum.
@Dss yeah, wasn't new to me, just what annoyed me yesterday. ;)
Though this wasn't AI, they just gathered every license for every package they included in the nearly 3GB of mostly open-source software, and pasted it all together, whether there were duplicates or not. I bet even Xilinx's lawyers don't know what's in there.
Crazy on that example you gave though.