Sounds like a bunch of IANAL bringing up legal criticisms mostly intended to cc0 that, if they apply to the unlicense, would equally apply to the MIT license (which, for example, has the exact same warranty paragraph that the most upvoted answer calls "inconsistent" in the unlicense)
The part about it being "illegal" in Germany is also a bit weird.
Usabilty Engineer and JavaScript/TypeScript Developer.
On the path to become a Clean Code Developer.
Also rediscovering OOP-Principals and Design-Patterns.
I'd like to see the lawsuit where some big company points at some random guy who posted some code online: "That dude! Its his fault! He put the code online. We just copied it and used it without looking at it. After all: He did't put a sign up there: 'I am not liable if you use it in a nuclear power-plant.'"
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Sounds like a bunch of IANAL bringing up legal criticisms mostly intended to cc0 that, if they apply to the unlicense, would equally apply to the MIT license (which, for example, has the exact same warranty paragraph that the most upvoted answer calls "inconsistent" in the unlicense)
The part about it being "illegal" in Germany is also a bit weird.
I'd like to see the lawsuit where some big company points at some random guy who posted some code online: "That dude! Its his fault! He put the code online. We just copied it and used it without looking at it. After all: He did't put a sign up there: 'I am not liable if you use it in a nuclear power-plant.'"
Its going to be hilarious.
Unfortunately, within the current legal system in the United States, anything is possible.
I'd be lying if I said the legal system of the USA is anywhere high on my priority list when choosing a software license tbh.