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Mike Linksvayer (mlinksva) - 10 years ago 2014-11-16 15:35:50
ml@gondwanaland.com
typos/extra words
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@@ -2390,7 +2390,7 @@ 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
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@@ -2398,7 +2398,7 @@ 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
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