Re: [License-discuss] Consumer protection, defective product

2021-11-11 Thread Bradley M. Kuhn
Pamela Chestek wrote: > There probably are also consumer protection laws in the US that could be > used with the same defective product theory you mention for Germany. These > are state laws and I'm not familiar with them enough to know if they would > apply in this situation. However, I suspect th

Re: [License-discuss] Consumer protection, defective product

2021-11-11 Thread Pamela Chestek
On 11/2/2021 2:12 PM, Dirk RIEHLE wrote: Hello everyone, you may have seen this https://www.natlawreview.com/article/gpl-open-source-litigation-could-open-door-to-other-suits or similar in which the SFC sues Vizio over GPLv2 violation from the position of consumer protection, not from th

Re: [License-discuss] OSI as guarantor for "or later" *GPL clauses

2021-11-11 Thread Pamela Chestek
On 8/31/2021 5:45 AM, Enrico Zini wrote: Hello, I would like to be able to license my code with one of the *GPL family licenses, and to add OSI as an extra entity that can guarantee for what "or later" might mean in the future. I'd like something similar to what KDE Foundation is doing: https:/