Re: [GOODTITLE patch 0/8] Deep review of the 'good title' disclaimer variant

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On 6/5/19 11:00 AM, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> The following modified disclaimer is beyond my competence so I refrain from
> commenting on it and leave it to our lawyer friends to make sense of it.
> 
> Standard disclaimer:
> 
>     this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but
>     without any warranty without even the implied warranty of
>     merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose see the gnu general
>     public license for more details
> 
> Modified disclaimer:
> 
>     this program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful but
>     without any warranty without even the implied warranty of
>     merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose good title or non
>     infringement see the gnu general public license for more details
> 
> The extra bit is: "good title or non infringement"

My understanding is that the warranties of title and noninfringement are
standard implied warranties, so GPLv2 already disclaims them by
disclaiming any implied warranties. But, this seems more legally
nuanced, so I'll wait to review until some of the lawyers comment.

Allison



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