Edmund GRIMLEY EVANS <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Or a license "you must acknowledge that any damage you might suffer as a >> result of using this software is no greater than 99 cents"? > > That sounds like a weaker version of the warranty disclaimer in the GPL.
No, it's much stronger. The GPL disclaimer is just disclaiming a warranty. This means I can't go after my insurance company, or some paid consultant who recommended this software to me, either. >> If not, why is >> "you must acknowledge <something that might put you at a disadvantage in >> court>" free? > > Presumably because acknowledging the truth of something that is true > is no burden. For example, "you must acknowledge that this software is > released under the XPL" is probably acceptable in the text of the XPL, > a hypothetical licence. > > The trouble with the no-nuclear acknowledgement is that it might not > always be true: someone might want to create a derived work that is > licensed for use in nuclear power stations. Fortunately, only the original carries that notice. In any case, I don't believe you can get code written by others approved for this purpose. You have to write it from scratch under certain supervised conditions. -- Brian Sniffen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
