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Bradley Kuhn (bkuhn) - 9 years ago 2015-03-13 19:38:58
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Note that most USA states/commonwealths adopt UCC.

While most USA lawyers will know this as simple fact, the tutorial wants
to welcome an international audience and non-lawyers too. As such, this
dependent clause is worth adding.
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\section{GPLv2~\S11: No Warranty}


			




	
	
	
		
 
\label{GPLv2s11}


			




	
	
	
		
 

			




	
	
	
		
 
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''.


			




	
	
	
		
 
  Code~\S2-316}, which most of the USA's states and commonwealths have adopted as their local


			




	
	
	
		
 
law, 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


			




	
	
	
		
 
conspicuousness can be established by


			




        

    



    


    



    



      

      





    
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