On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 11:02:17PM -0400, Adam Kessel wrote: > On Tue, May 18, 2004 at 06:52:10PM -0500, Joe Wreschnig wrote: > > Is there any reason that warranty disclaimers ALWAYS LOOK LIKE THIS in > > copyright licenses? I can't find any legal precedent for requiring them > > to be like this, but the only one I remember seeing in a proper case is > > Peter Norvig's license[0] where clauses 1 and 2 take the place of the > > boilerplate disclaimer. > I'm not aware of any particular case that hinged on mixed case versus > all caps, but it does seem to be the standard way to make the > disclaimer. I believe that there was one completely stupid precedent set along these lines somewhere, which is responsible for the knee-jerk capitalisation that lawyers practise nowadays. -- .''`. ** Debian GNU/Linux ** | Andrew Suffield : :' : http://www.debian.org/ | `. `' | `- -><- |
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