On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 16:57 +0100, Alex Hudson wrote: > "Michael Peeters, a partner at Pinsent Masons, the law firm > behind OUT-LAW.COM, says warranties as to the performance and > even the title to the software could be implied into open source > licences by a British court." > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/04/10/opensource_hidden_warranties/ > > Happily, you can register at their free breakfast briefing to hear more > about this important issue. > > (In all seriousness, they are probably right about warranties to some > extent; I would like to see a Judge imply title given a licence > though... ;) > > I've asked to be let in for the 25th in London, I rather suspect the > talk will be somewhat less exciting than the "GPL authors lose their > rights!" spin.
On the same basis, a judge could say that a proprietary license wasn't reasonable and unilaterally give more rights to users. This has happened in the USA with respect to transfer of licenses so I don;t see anything particularly new in any of this. -- Ian Lynch www.theINGOTs.org www.opendocumentfellowship.org www.schoolforge.org.uk _______________________________________________ Fsfe-uk mailing list [email protected] http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/fsfe-uk
