On Fri, 2 Aug 2002, Russell Nelson wrote: > From what various legal scholars > tell me, a non-contractual license (such as the GPL) cannot cause you > to give up your warranty rights.
Is there a reference of some sort for this? It's about the only solid reason I see to need to go beyond copyright law. Is there any court precedent that suggests this? A case where someone was given something for free, with warranty disclaimed in a copyright license, and the court decided that warranty disclaimer was invalid? This is a pretty big delta to current understanding, so if a change as large as expanding the OSD to cover contracts is based upon this, we need more than hearsay. Are there any other reasons to consider allowing the OSD to cover contracts? My sense is that keeping it limited to copyright licenses has been key to its success to this point. > Agreed. That's why I think we need to amend the OSD so that it > clearly states that a license must not restrict use, modification, or > redistribution of the software. The OSD, by applying to copyright licenses, already allows restrictions on redistribution. It'd be kinda toothless if it didn't... Brian -- license-discuss archive is at http://crynwr.com/cgi-bin/ezmlm-cgi?3