[License-review] NOSA 2.0 and Government licensing [was: moving to an issue tracker [was Re: Some notes for license submitters]]

[Bruce Perens]

On Wed, Jun 20, 2018 at 8:34 AM, Smith, McCoy
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> I'm curious what sort of harm the government or downstream users would
> suffer in your scenario


His comment about USG having lots of money for people to go after - the one
with the repeated lines - indicates that liability is a concern.

Even in a copyright-based license, the declination of warranty is not a
copyright term. It's a unilateral declination. It's not really going to
work to tell the court that a party that sues you for liability damages
commits copyright infringement by doing so.

A unilateral declination regarding public-domain software should work as
well as one regarding copyrighted material.
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