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Re: Re: Please pass judgement on X-Oz licence: free or nay?



1. I'm on the list. Please don't Cc me.
2. Don't break threads.

On Mon, 2004-08-09 at 22:36, Nathanael Nerode wrote:
> Pay more attention.  :-)
> 
> The warranty disclaimer is not a condition of the license; it's not a 
> condition of any sort, simply an assertion that there is no warranty. 
> Now if a license said "provided that you accept the following 
> disclaimer", that would be a condition.

Then there are no conditions in the X license; "The above copyright
notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or
substantial portions of the Software." is also an assertion. The verb of
obligation in question, "shall", is used in this clause and the
"dealings" one.
-- 
Joe Wreschnig <piman@debian.org>

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