Re: [Batch 1 - patch 12/25] treewide: Replace GPLv2 boilerplate/reference with SPDX - gpl-2.0_208.RULE

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On Wed, Jun 8, 2022 at 7:16 PM J Lovejoy <opensource@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On the topic of comparison - the warranty in the standard license notice states, "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."
> It is a truncated version of what is actually in the license, which (I take) as the reason for "see ... license for more details". Thus, the overall comparison of these variations we are finding should look to the full text of the disclaimer of warranty in the license, not just the standard notice.

Agreed. The cases I was trying to flag (both now and in ~2019)
generally involve ones where the author is adding disclaimers of
implied warranties not explicitly found in GPLv2.

Richard





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