Re: Generic Simple License

2000-05-23 Thread Forrest J. Cavalier III
Justin Wells wrote: I'm not sure that such short disclaimers will work. What is the smallest warranty disclaimer you have seen and think would work? Also, since you do not require people to copy the license on to further works, you will get sued by third parties who had no opportunity to

Re: Generic Simple License

2000-05-23 Thread Justin Wells
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 02:06:41PM -0500, Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote: Justin Wells wrote: I'm not sure that such short disclaimers will work. What is the smallest warranty disclaimer you have seen and think would work? They're all pretty long. I think some states and provices will

Re: Generic Simple License

2000-05-23 Thread Forrest J. Cavalier III
Because disclaiming implicit warranties and all liabilities has to be done explicitly and prominently. If the disclaimers are removed, then it is neither explicit nor prominent--so the disclaimers are probably unenforceable. So what changes if the second party removes the disclaimers

Re: Generic Simple License

2000-05-23 Thread Justin Wells
On Tue, May 23, 2000 at 04:23:03PM -0500, Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote: Because disclaiming implicit warranties and all liabilities has to be done explicitly and prominently. If the disclaimers are removed, then it is neither explicit nor prominent--so the disclaimers are probably

Re: Generic Simple License

2000-05-23 Thread David Johnson
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Forrest J. Cavalier III wrote: Also, since you do not require people to copy the license on to further works, you will get sued by third parties who had no opportunity to read your disclaimers. I don't understand how. OK, well I understand that anyone can bring a

Re: Generic Simple License

2000-05-23 Thread David Johnson
On Tue, 23 May 2000, Justin Wells wrote: I'm not sure if public domain helps you. I would guess that you are fully liable for public domain software. For example, you shouldn't be able to dodge the liability for the damage your computer virus caused by claiming that the virus is "public

Generic Simple License

2000-05-22 Thread Forrest J. Cavalier III
The inspiration is the Apache license, with the advertising clauses removed. Can this be improved? Can it be made more simple? Can it be more generic? Forrest J. Cavalier III http://www.mibsoftware.com/ - This work is copyrighted by