"John Halton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I have a (slightly old) edition of Rennie's "Computer and Internet
> Contracts and Law" (a leading English software precedents
> looseleaf), and the notes state as follows in a number of contracts:
>
> "USA: NOTE: In all States in the USA (except Louisi
John Halton wrote:
> "USA: NOTE: In all States in the USA (except Louisiana) all
> disclaimers of warranty of merchantability or warranty of fitness for
> any particular purpose must be conspicuous and are usually in boldface
> or uppercase (capital) print or both."
This is based on the US case of
On Jan 9, 2008 12:20 AM, Ben Finney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> [...] 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.
Richard Fontana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ben Finney wrote:
> > This still stands. I'm still entirely unaware of what the legal
> > reason [for SHOUTY CAPITALS in disclaimers] is.
>
> This is explained in the rationale document that accompanied the third
> public draft of GPLv3,
> http://gplv
Ben Finney wrote:
> 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 h
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
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