Russell Nelson wrote:
[ Please discuss this license. Is this discriminating against users
in countries where warranty can be disclaimed? -russ ]
If the following disclaimer of warranty and liability is not valid due
to the laws in a jurisdiction then NO RIGHTS ARE GRANTED in that
jurisdiction wi
To OSI License Discussion subscribers,
From: Anonymous Poster,
From: David Johnson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
I have concluded that the "No Warranty License" does not conform to the
Open Source Definition. The offending clause is as follows:
If the following disclaimer of warranty and liability is not
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,
To Justin Chen-Wells,
From: Nathan Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
From: Justin Chen-Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
This violates Item 5 of the OSD, which states that "The license must
not discriminate against any person or group of persons.". By not
granting equal rights to users, distributors and ope
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 inhabi
>
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Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 8:53 AM
Subject: Re: discuss: No Warranty License.
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: You have to be careful with this:
:
: o Open source developers ought to be able to limit their
: liability, otherwise many f
Right on! /Larry
> -Original Message-
> From: Rod Dixon, J.D., LL.M. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 4:42 PM
> To: Justin Chen-Wells; Nathan Kelley
> Cc: OSI License Discussion
> Subject: Re: discuss: No Warranty License.
>
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To Justin Chen-Wells, Rod Dixon J.D. LL.M. and OSI License Discussion
subscribers,
From: Justin Chen-Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
From: Nathan Kelley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
From: Justin Chen-Wells <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
From: Rod Dixon J.D. LL.M. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
On the other hand supposing some g
Nathan Kelley scripsit:
> Those in the proprietary software business aren't allowed to re-use
> code from any software licensed under any OSD-compliant license in
> their proprietary products without conforming to the conditions of the
> license, making their product nonproprietary;
This is b
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> -Original Message-
> From: Nathan Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:53 AM
> To: Justin Chen-Wells; Rod Dixon J.D. LL.M.
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> > -Original Message-
> > From: Nathan Kelley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 4:53 AM
> > To: Justin Chen-Wells; Rod Dixon J.D. LL.M.
> > Cc: OSI License Discussion
Russell Nelson scripsit:
> [ please discuss this license. I assume that the submittor means to
> withdraw the previous version. -russ ]
I see no problems with this license.
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John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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