On 10/1/06, Andrew Donnellan <ajdlinux@gmail.com> wrote:
On 10/1/06, Steve Langasek <vorlon@debian.org> wrote: > What jurisdictions are these? The only anecdotal explanation I've ever > heard for capsturbation in warranty disclaimers, at least in the US, is that > someone did it once and lawyers live in a monkey-see, monkey-do universe. I believe someone pointed out some statute or court case in Maryland or somewhere on d-l around the end of last year (I think it may have been Alexander Terekhov complaining about the lowercase disclaimer in GPLv3) that said that it was required.
Just searched and apparently Alexander was complaining about the lowercase disclaimer but posted a link to some law about lawyers advertising or something. Of course that doesn't mean it's not required, just that the evidence given was irrelevant. I've seen most places do it and lawyers recommending it and so on, and as it is a legal disclaimer I think it would be wise to use emphasised text, at least put asterisks around it or something to draw attention. -- Andrew Donnellan http://andrewdonnellan.com http://ajdlinux.blogspot.com Jabber - ajdlinux@jabber.org.au GPG - hkp://subkeys.pgp.net 0x5D4C0C58 ------------------------------- Member of Linux Australia - http://linux.org.au Debian user - http://debian.org Get free rewards - http://ezyrewards.com/?id=23484 OpenNIC user - http://www.opennic.unrated.net