Re: Public Domain for Germans
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- Subject: Re: Public Domain for Germans
- From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
- Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 10:54:38 +0100
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- In-reply-to: <20081104210514.GA2771@pcpool00.mathematik.uni-freiburg.de> (Bernhard R. Link's message of "Tue, 4 Nov 2008 22:05:14 +0100")
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* Bernhard R. Link:
> * Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de> [081104 21:29]:
>> Word on the street is that you can't effectively disclaim warranty
>> while putting something in the public domain.
>
> Well, as we are discussing the German POV, as German you cannot disclaim
> warrenty effectively at all as far as I do understand it.
Not for gross negligence, no, but for ordinary negligence (things like
following established more-or-less software engineering practices,
like not doing patent research or writing C code), it should be
possible. Part of the reason for that there's a significant lobby
which will prevent the application of ProdHG to software.
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