Re: Revised JasPer License
* Nathanael Nerode <neroden@twcny.rr.com> [040201 22:28]:
> It would still be better if the disclaimer disclaimed implied warranties only
> to, say, "the fullest extent permitted by law". :-) This presumably isn't
> strictly necessary, because the usual interpretation of illegal warranty
> disclaimers seems to be that the rest of the license remains valid. But it's
> safer, especially because of the line "NO USE OF THE SOFTWARE IS AUTHORIZED
> HEREUNDER EXCEPT UNDER THIS DISCLAIMER," which read strictly would indicate
> that if any part of the warranty disclaimer was found invalid, the Software
> couldn't be used in that jurisdiction.
Well, I don't know other jurisdictions, but in Germany something like
"as permitted by law" is automatically moot, and so is the line you
quoted, as I was told... (Or the line may be intact but a empty
condition as the disclaimer is empty, don't know how they make it..)
Hochachtungsvoll,
Bernhard R. Link
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