On Thu, May 23, 2019 at 5:20 PM Allison Randal <allison@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On 5/22/19 9:18 AM, Greg KH wrote: > > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 09:07:49AM -0400, Richard Fontana wrote: > >> This pattern has a simple, relatively high level disclaimer sentence. > > > > What does that mean? > > The disclaimer includes some BSD-style disclaimer text, but is so > high-level/generic that it may not be materially different than the > usual GPL-style disclaimer. (That's both my interpretation of what > Richard was saying, and my own opinion when I reviewed the patch.) Actually the reason I called it out is that I don't know how we should handle it. For reference, since thanks to my top-posting the context was lost, it was this: > this program is licensed as is without > any warranty of any kind whether express or implied Having done a tiny amount of legal research I'm starting to feel more comfortable with the idea of nonretention of at least a lot of these non-GNU disclaimer statements. Certainly this one. (That's not to dismiss the underlying GPL compliance issue I called attention to, though.) Richard
