Re: [License-discuss] Warranty of title

2017-02-06 Thread Massimo Zaniboni
On 06/02/2017 04:55, Tim Makarios wrote: Okay, but if Carlos also distributes B, unchanged, then he's also a distributor of B, but not an author of it. If B is released (and Carlos distributes it) under, say, the Apache licence, then the Licensor is disclaiming warranties of title and

Re: [License-discuss] Warranty of title

2017-02-05 Thread Tim Makarios
On Fri, 2017-01-20 at 13:40 +0100, Massimo Zaniboni wrote: > On 20/01/2017 00:20, Tim Makarios wrote: > > > Or is there some legal theory by > > which the copyright holders are considered to be the licensors, but the > > distributor is considered to be the one to whom the waiver of warranty >

Re: [License-discuss] Warranty of title

2017-01-20 Thread Massimo Zaniboni
On 20/01/2017 00:20, Tim Makarios wrote: > Or is there some legal theory by > which the copyright holders are considered to be the licensors, but the > distributor is considered to be the one to whom the waiver of warranty > applies? From what I understood, the situation seems this: * suppose

[License-discuss] Warranty of title

2017-01-19 Thread Tim Makarios
On Wed, 2017-01-18 at 08:01 +, David Woolley wrote: > More generally on this topic, the requirement to include the copyright > and licence in the permissive licences is only really codifying best > practice. That's especially true for open source derivatives, where the > implied warranty