From e62b08eb9cb590137853be8feab2f26f8eabf0ae Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Bradley M. Kuhn" Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2015 11:01:16 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Note that most USA states/commonwealths adopt UCC. While most USA lawyers will know this as simple fact, the tutorial wants to welcome an international audience and non-lawyers too. As such, this dependent clause is worth adding. --- gpl-lgpl.tex | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/gpl-lgpl.tex b/gpl-lgpl.tex index ab34de2..6382e7e 100644 --- a/gpl-lgpl.tex +++ b/gpl-lgpl.tex @@ -2397,7 +2397,8 @@ copyright licenses. Most warranty disclaimer language shouts at you. The \href{http://www.law.cornell.edu/ucc/2/2-316}{Uniform Commercial - Code~\S2-316} requires that disclaimers of warranty be ``conspicuous''. + Code~\S2-316}, which most of the USA's states and commonwealths have adopted as their local +law, requires that disclaimers of warranty be ``conspicuous''. There is apparently general acceptance that \textsc{all caps} is the preferred way to make something conspicuous, and that has over decades worked its way into the voodoo tradition of warranty disclaimer writing.