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Mike Linksvayer (mlinksva) - 10 years ago 2014-11-16 15:35:50
ml@gondwanaland.com
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@@ -2387,21 +2387,21 @@ 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
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