Re: discuss: No Warranty License.

2003-02-27 Thread Justin Chen-Wells
You have to be careful with this: o Open source developers ought to be able to limit their liability, otherwise many firms and individuals may be unwilling or unable to contribute code o You risk binding the OSD to the union of the laws of every jurisdiction on earth,

Re: discuss: No Warranty License.

2003-02-27 Thread Justin Chen-Wells
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 07:05:55AM +1100, Nathan Kelley wrote: You have said that this No Warranty License fails to comply because it discriminates against people in a particular jurisdiction. Your reasoning was that the laws of that region are beyond the control of its inhabitants

Re: The Simple Permissive License, v0.1

2002-02-09 Thread Justin Chen-Wells
I'm not sure you guys really want to chop out all the stuff about implied warranties and so forth. I know it makes the license long and that's contrary to what yo'ure trying to do, but without explicitly disclaiming the implied warranties of fitness to purpose and merchantability, you are