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  • From: Rob Myers <robmyers AT mac.com>
  • To: Discussion on the Creative Commons license drafts <cc-licenses AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: CC 2.0
  • Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 00:44:24 +0000

On 9 Feb 2004, at 21:28, Evan Prodromou wrote:

"ML" == Mike Linksvayer <ml AT creativecommons.org> writes:

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.

The OGL contains a warranty clause and millions of dollars of products have been produced under it. But that's only Open Content, not Open Source... :-)

SCO has been able to sow fear, uncertainty, and doubt amongst the
technical press and IT departments with claims of copyright violations
in Linux (under the GNU General Public License). They've got a plan to
extract license fees from Linux users.

Absolutely. See Groklaw for why warranties will be a big issue for Open Content in about twenty minutes time.

You can pay by warranting that you have authored what you claim to have authored or you can pay by buying third-party insurance. Removing rather than modifying 5a is clearly better for the economy if not for the commons. :-)

- Rob.





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