From owner-freebsd-security Sun Oct 8 8:49:28 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-security@freebsd.org Received: from khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu [18.24.4.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DC03E37B503 for ; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 08:49:25 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from wollman@localhost) by khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) id LAA05947; Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:48:44 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from wollman) Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2000 11:48:44 -0400 (EDT) From: Garrett Wollman Message-Id: <200010081548.LAA05947@khavrinen.lcs.mit.edu> To: Darren Reed Cc: freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG (freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG) Subject: Re: Check Point FW-1 In-Reply-To: <200010080427.PAA19412@cairo.anu.edu.au> References: <200010080427.PAA19412@cairo.anu.edu.au> Sender: owner-freebsd-security@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org < said: > For the record, you can't sue anyone who's got the "standard" software > license/disclaimer over the failure of it to perform or be bug free. > Read it one day and actually see what it's all about. Um, yes and no. It varies from jurisdiction to jurisdiction. Here in Massachusetts, there is no legally valid waiver of the right to sue, and implied warranties are difficult to disclaim. I do not know, however, whether anyone has tested this relative to a commercial software license before -- but there is a reason most licenses which include a warranty clause say something like ``this warranty gives you specific legal rights, and you may have other rights which vary from jurisdiction to jursidiction.'' -GAWollman To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-security" in the body of the message