(chapter{Odds, Ends, and Absolutely No Warranty}): Wrote chapter.

\S 0--7 constitute the freedom-defending terms of the GPL.  The balance

of the GPL handles administrivia and issues concerning warranties and

liability.

\section{GPL \S 9: FSF as stewards of GPL}

FSF reserves the exclusive right to publish future versions of the GPL\@;

\S 9 expresses this.  While the stewardship of the copyrights on the body

of GPL'ed software around the world is shared among thousands of

individuals and organizations, the license itself needs a single steward.

Forking of the code is often regrettable but basically innocuous.  Forking

of licensing is disastrous.

FSF has only released two versions of GPL --- in 1989 and 1991.  GPL,

version 3, is under current internal drafting.  FSF's plan is to have a

long and engaging comment period.  The goal of GPL is defend freedom, and

a gigantic community depends on that freedom now.  FSF hopes to take all

stakeholders' opinions under advisement.

\section{GPL \S 10: Relicensing Permitted}

\S 10 reminds the licensee of what is already implied by the nature of

copyright law.  Namely, the copyright holder of a particular software

program has the prerogative to grant alternative agreements under separate

copyright licenses.

\section{GPL \S 11: No Warranty}

With \S 11, the boilerplate language of all copyright licenses begins.

Sometimes, companies are concerned that there is no default warranty on

GPL'ed software.  However, nearly all proprietary software licensing

agreements disclaim warranty as well.

All warranty disclaimer language tends to be shouted in all capital

letters.  Apparently, there was once a case where the disclaimer language

of an agreement was negated because it was not ``conspicuous'' to one of

the parties.  Therefore, to make such language ``conspicuous'', people

started placing it in bold or capitalizing the entire text.  It now seems

to be voodoo tradition of warranty disclaimer writing.

Finally, one important point to remember when reading \S 11 is that \S 1

permits the sale of warranty as an additional service, which  \S 11

affirms.

There are many types of warranties, and in some jurisdictions some of them

cannot be disclaimed.  Therefore, usually agreements will have both a

warranty disclaimer and a limitation of liability, as we have in \S 12.

\S 11 thus gets rid of all implied warranties that can legally be

disavowed.  \S 12, in turn, limits the liability of the actor for any

warranties that cannot legally be disclaimed in a particular jurisdiction.

So ends the terms and conditions of the GNU General Public License.