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gavinhoward

I have no beef with FSL. FSL is totally fine.

I would just prefer to have more liability protection.

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> I would just prefer to have more liability protection.

Would be curious what you have in mind. The FSL comes with a default no warranty disclaimer.

Specifically, a disclaimer of duty. https://yzena.com/yzena-noncommercial-license/#no-duty .

For why, see questions 33-36 at https://yzena.com/yzena-noncommercial-license-faq/ .

I'm not a lawyer but I think licenses like this have a potential to be very problematic. Even the termination clause of the GPL has turned out to be challenging and primarily is not an issue because it's being ignored / re-instantiated despite the license text. If a court however would ever rule on this, that might be problematic.

(Also the fact that this license was not written by a lawyer in itself seems … less than ideal)

That is why I need lawyer money.

But I have actually gotten halfway with a lawyer. A lawyer actually wrote the No Duty clause.

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