[License-review] For approval - Russian Permissive Free Software Licence

[Richard Fontana]

Vladimir,

You can ignore this message (at least for now) since I meant it to be
superseded, in a sense, by my later more general message, which is why
I (as a moderator of license-review) didn't let it go through. :) It
was a case of proceeding through the license text, noting some
questions or comments I intended to post seriatim, and then realizing
that I had a more general concern I needed to articulate first. 

 - Richard




On Mon, 14 Apr 2014 13:24:21 +0400
Vladimir Slyshchenkov <vaslys at hotmail.com> wrote:

> Hi Richard, 
> 
> Thank you for your e-mail. 
> I will answer your below question soon in my response to your other
> e-mail which concerns the translation controversies. 
>  
> Best, 
> Vladimir. 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Richard Fontana [mailto:fontana at sharpeleven.org] 
> Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2014 8:23 PM
> To: License submissions for OSI review
> Cc: vaslys at hotmail.com
> Subject: Re: [License-review] For approval - Russian Permissive Free
> Software Licence
> 
> On Sun, 16 Mar 2014 15:03:21 +0400
> Vladimir Slyshchenkov <vaslys at hotmail.com> wrote:
> 
> > This is to formally submit for OSI License Review a new FOSS
> > license, Russian Permissive Free Software Licence (RSL).
> 
> I have a question about this part:
> 
> "Such grant of rights to use the program shall not infringe the
> rights of third parties to this program. Thus the person who grants
> rights of use according to the terms and conditions of this licence
> shall have exclusive right or be otherwise entitled to grant rights
> to use the program."
> 
> What's the legal significance of this - is the licensor granting the
> equivalent of a warranty of title and/or noninfringement? 
> 
> - RF
> 
>