Re: endorsements disclaimer as part of the warranty statement
Branden Robinson <branden@debian.org> writes:
> So, might not the DFCL say something like:
>
> BECAUSE THE CONTENT OF THE WORK IS FREELY MODIFIABLE BY ALL THIRD
> PARTIES, THERE IS NO WARRANTY THAT ANY REPRESENTATIONS MADE WITH IN ARE
> MADE BY, ON BEHALF OF, OR WITH THE CONSENT OF THE AUTHOR(S) OR COPYRIGHT
> HOLDER(S). ANY STATEMENTS MADE WITHIN THE WORK ARE NOT NECESSARILY
> HELD, SHARED, OR ENDORSED BY THE AUTHOR(S) OR COPYRIGHT HOLDER(S).
[snipage]
> Now, go ahead, boys, tell me how it's GPL-incompatible and how I'm
> violating "the principle of least surprise".
This scenario looks good, to me, at least. For whatever that's
worth.
I had a hypothetical all ready that would show how someone could use
the sort of tunneling you were talking about to tie malicious code
(e.g., spyware, or copy-right checking code) to something else and
claim the result was GPL, despite being unable to prune the nasty
stuff out.... But I guess that's superfluous now. ;)
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