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- From: zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny)
- Newsgroups: gnu.misc.discuss,talk.philosophy.misc,misc.legal
- Subject: Re: Fund raising at the FSF
- Message-ID: <1993Jan8.143933.19114@husc3.harvard.edu>
- Date: 8 Jan 93 19:39:32 GMT
- Article-I.D.: husc3.1993Jan8.143933.19114
- References: <FRIEDMAN.93Jan8024448@nutrimat.gnu.ai.mit.edu> <1993Jan8.115714.19103@husc3.harvard.edu> <1ikfruINN521@life.ai.mit.edu>
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- In article <1ikfruINN521@life.ai.mit.edu>
- mycroft@hal.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan8.115714.19103@husc3.harvard.edu>
- >zeleny@husc10.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny) writes:
-
- MZ:
- >> The law does not permit selling products without warranty of any
- >> kind. That does not stop the FSF from including its "NO WARRANTY"
- >> clause in the GPL.
-
- CH:
- >Specifically, version 2 says:
- >
- > 11. BECAUSE THE PROGRAM IS LICENSED FREE OF CHARGE, THERE IS NO
- > WARRANTY FOR THE PROGRAM, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
-
- Note the final qualification. I know of no place in the so-called
- First World, where FSF would not be held liable for the damage
- incurred by a virus contained in its distribution tapes or CD-ROM.
- Other kinds of irrevocable implied warranty may be readily adduced to
- the same effect.
-
- CH:
- >Furthermore, the FSF `sells' a distribution service, and provides for
- >a suitable warranty on the media used for such.
-
- Case in point.
-
- CH:
- >What is your point?
-
- Only that (by analogy) the FSF can be no more successful in its
- efforts to override the copyright of derivative works falling under
- the provisions of the GPL, than is permitted under the copyright law.
-
- >--
- > \ / Charles Hannum, mycroft@ai.mit.edu
- > /\ \ PGP public key available on request. MIME, AMS, NextMail accepted.
- >Scheme White heterosexual atheist male (WHAM) pride!
-
- cordially,
- mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
- "Le cul des femmes est monotone comme l'esprit des hommes."
-