On Mon, Sep 17, 2001 at 04:52:37AM -0500, Branden Robinson wrote: > I keep hearing, though I have not had the opportunity to verify this > with a Real Lawyer(tm), that public domain has one drawback; you can't > attach a no-warranty statement to it.
US Geological Survey seems to have no problem distributing public domain software with a no-warranty statement. More generally, warranty is a commerce concept, not a copyright concept. [For example, you can have a warranty, or a lack of a warranty, on a hammer. [It doesn't make sense to copyright a hammer.]] -- Raul
