[Fwd: [LeapList]The "New UCITA" appears to be worse]

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Subject: [LeapList]The "New UCITA" appears to be worse
Date: Wed, 9 Jan 2002 19:18:46 -0500
From: Steve Litt <slitt@troubleshooters.com>
Reply-To: leaplist@lists.leap-cf.org
Organization: Troubleshooters.Com
To: leaplist@lists.leap-cf.org

Hi all,

The "New UCITA" appears to be worse than the old. It prevents genuine
Open 
Source authors from waiving warranty liability to individual consumers,
while 
allowing Microsoft to waive warranty liability for their free beer
software 
to businesses.

I might change the license on my 3 GPL projects to ban use in UCITA
states, 
and to define the litigation venue to Orlando, FL.

The prohibition on reverse engineering is eased just slightly, but not
enough 
to make Open Source interoperation legal.

There are many other noxious provisions. I get this information from a
public 
email from Cem Kaner at:

http://www.interesting-people.org/archives/interesting-people/200112/msg00255.html

FIGHT UCITA!!!

SteveT

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Steve Litt
Webmaster, Troubleshooters.Com
http://www.troubleshooters.com
slitt@troubleshooters.com



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