Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > For what it's worth, the GPLv3 drafters researched the commonly-held > belief that SHOUTY CAPITALS are required for warranty disclaimers, > and concluded there was no such requirement: > > The warranty exclusions that were in GPL2 have not been changed > saving one way: I took them out of all uppercase. > > [...] because no lawyer on Earth knows [why] they aren't in mixed > case and everybody seems to think that everybody else knows and > that he's the only one that doesn't know and he was absent that > day in law school. > > > <URL:http://www.ifso.ie/documents/gplv3-launch-2006-01-16.html#em-warranty>
Sadly, checking the released version of GPLv3, I see that the sections "15. Disclaimer of Warranty." and "16. Limitation of Liability." both contain all text in SHOUTY CAPITALS. That's disappointing :-( I wasn't aware they'd been reverted from readable text. It must have happened shortly before the release. > > so the board may want to check their local legal position before > > finalising the non-shouty version. > > If the board reveals something more substantive on the reason for > writing disclaimers in SHOUTY CAPITALS than "because that's what > everyone says you have to do", I'm sure many people would be > interested. This still stands. I'm still entirely unaware of what the legal reason is. -- \ "It's easy to play any musical instrument: all you have to do | `\ is touch the right key at the right time and the instrument | _o__) will play itself." -- Johann Sebastian Bach | Ben Finney -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
