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Re: License review request



On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 02:43:43PM +1000, Andrew Donnellan wrote:
> On 10/1/06, Sanghyeon Seo <sanxiyn@gmail.com> wrote:
> >Hello, debian-legal!

> >I am intending to some of my codes licensed under MIT license to the
> >new license of my devising. I would like to have it reviewed.

> >I am deadly serious.

> >Link to the full text:
> >http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/temp/lowercased (in plain text)
> >http://sparcs.kaist.ac.kr/~tinuviel/temp/lowercased.html (in HTML)

> In some jurisdictions it is required that any disclaimers must be
> appropriately emphasised, otherwise they are legally unenforceable. In
> text form the main form of emphasis is all uppercase letters.

What jurisdictions are these?  The only anecdotal explanation I've ever
heard for capsturbation in warranty disclaimers, at least in the US, is that
someone did it once and lawyers live in a monkey-see, monkey-do universe.

Thanks,
-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
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