On Mon, 17 Sep 2001, Branden Robinson wrote: > I keep hearing, though I have not had the opportunity to verify this > with a Real Lawyer(tm), that public domain has one drawback; you can't > attach a no-warranty statement to it.
I'm no lawyer and had not contact to US or british ones. But it would suprise me, if the form of the rights you give away would affect the possibility to avoid warrenty. > It is apparently extremely important to have a statement like this: > [...] > ...at least in the United States. Else you risk getting sued when the > stuff breaks. I do not know well about warrenty laws in other countries. But you should be aware, that this may only hold in USA and GB. In Germany for example this statement is simply void. (You can avoid warrenty, but you hav explicitly to say which warrenties, and when you try to avoid more warrenty than you are allowed to, then the whole warrenty clause is void.) Hochachtungsvoll, Bernhard R. Link