[License-review] Sovereign Immunity

Rick Moen rick at linuxmafia.com
Fri Sep 18 01:36:00 UTC 2015


Quoting Lawrence Rosen (lrosen at rosenlaw.com):

> Section 1983 is a big kettle of fish. [1]  42 U.S.C. 1983 is a civil
> rights law, a part of the Public Health and Welfare Act. I'm sure that
> statute has lots to do with voting discrimination, but it may be hard
> to apply it to software licenses.

Oh, I actually didn't mean to suggest Section 1983 was relevant to OSI
or to licence review.  In that sense, I really shouldn't have posted the 
comment here.  I just happened to have been studying the subject for its
relevance to a wholly different context.

Sorry about the digression.

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