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Mike Linksvayer (mlinksva) - 10 years ago 2014-11-16 15:35:50
ml@gondwanaland.com
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@@ -2381,33 +2381,33 @@ versions of GPL.)
 

	
 
\section{GPLv2~\S10: Relicensing Permitted}
 
\label{GPLv2s10}
 

	
 
GPLv2~\S10 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{GPLv2~\S11: No Warranty}
 
\label{GPLv2s11}
 

	
 
Most warranty disclaimer language shout at you.  The
 
Most warranty disclaimer language shouts at you.  The
 
\href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-316}{Uniform Commercial
 
  Code~\S2-316} requires that disclaimers of warranty be ``conspicuous''.
 
There is apparently general acceptance that \textsc{all caps} is the
 
preferred way to make something conspicuous, and that has over decades worked
 
its way into the voodoo tradition of warranty disclaimer writing.
 

	
 
That said, there is admittedly some authority under USA law suggesting that
 
effective warranty disclaimers that conspicuousness can be established by
 
conspicuousness can be established by
 
capitalization and is absent when a disclaimer has the same typeface as the
 
terms surrounding it (see \textit{Stevenson v.~TRW, Inc.}, 987 F.2d 288, 296
 
(5th Cir.~1993)).  While GPLv3's drafters doubted that such authority would
 
apply to copyright licenses like the GPL, the FSF has nevertheless left
 
warranty and related disclaimers in \textsc{all caps} throughout all versions
 
of GPL\@\footnote{One of the authors of this tutorial, Bradley M.~Kuhn, has
 
  often suggested the aesthetically preferable compromise of a
 
  \textsc{specifically designed ``small caps'' font, such as this one, as an
 
    alternative to} WRITING IN ALL CAPS IN THE DEFAULT FONT (LIKE THIS),
 
  since the latter adds more ugliness than conspicuousness.  Kuhn once
 
  engaged in reversion war with a lawyer who disagreed, but that lawyer never
 
  answered Kuhn's requests for case law that argues THIS IS INHERENTLY MORE
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