Development of Creative Commons licenses

[Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org>]

Evan Prodromou wrote:
>     ML> Question: AFAIK none of the major open source licenses contain
>     ML> a CC1.0-like warranty clause.  Is this a problem?
>
> Are you _joking_? Absolutely.

No, I'm not joking.  I nearly threw in a SCO disclaimer, but thought 
better of it.

I admit I haven't followed the details closely, but I kind of doubt the 
presence of a warranty in the GPL would've discouraged SCO.  They could 
still make bogus claims about code being incorrectly GPL'd.  Maybe it 
would be harder to go after end users, easier to go after developers.  I 
don't know if that's the right tradeoff at all.

Any other cases where a warranty in the GPL (or other free software 
license) might have helped?  Free software has a long history now, SCO 
is a recent (and hopefully fleeting) event.

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  Mike Linksvayer
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