Re: [License-discuss] Reconsidering the "unless required by applicable law" clauses on warranties and limitations of liability

2023-02-18 Thread David Woolley
On 18/02/2023 20:03, Brian Behlendorf wrote: That's not my premise. My premise is that if you can not hold me free from liability or warranty, I have the right to not allow you access to the other rights granted in my software license. This feels something like a field of endeavour restricti

Re: [License-discuss] Reconsidering the "unless required by applicable law" clauses on warranties and limitations of liability

2023-02-18 Thread Thorsten Glaser
Brian Behlendorf dixit: > My premise is that if you can not hold me free from > liability or warranty, I have the right to not allow you access to the other > rights granted in my software license. But do you, really? It’s more an everything-or-nothing thing because they are present as soon as th

Re: [License-discuss] Reconsidering the "unless required by applicable law" clauses on warranties and limitations of liability

2023-02-18 Thread Brian Behlendorf
On Sat, 18 Feb 2023, Pamela Chestek wrote: Amendments to the proposed CRA are being sought to limit its damage upon the OSS community, but I worry that its base premise (that warranties/liabiliies can not be waived, and thus even non-EU publishers of source code could be found subject to its fi

Re: [License-discuss] Reconsidering the "unless required by applicable law" clauses on warranties and limitations of liability

2023-02-18 Thread Pamela Chestek
Amendments to the proposed CRA are being sought to limit its damage upon the OSS community, but I worry that its base premise (that warranties/liabiliies can not be waived, and thus even non-EU publishers of source code could be found subject to its fines) and theory of incentives (put all the