[repost] [j at uriah.heep.sax.de: For Approval: The beer-ware license]

[Joerg Wunsch]

As Rick Moen wrote:

(Warranty disclaimer)

> > This is not obvios at all to me.  What is it needed for?  Who needs
> > it?

> Mr. Kamp is willing to run the risk of being sued for warranty
> obligations over a work that he passes out in public for no charge,
> and over whose uses he has no control whatsoever?

He doesn't.  He doesn't live in a legislation where this could happen.
All other users of his license probably either.  There's 95 % of the
world's population who do /not/ live in the USA.

Thank you very much for your time and attention.  Please close this
case, as it's obviously hopeless.  I thought the purpose of OSI was to
ensure open software is the result, and that's what people are
apparently thinking of OSI.  OK, next time someone asks me for an OSI-
approved license, I can now at least tell'em why it isn't and won't
happen.

73!
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