Re: License placement

Martin Eisenberg <martin.eisenberg@xxxxxxx> writes:

> And a tangential question: Part of many licenses
> is put in all uppercase. Is that more than a convention?

As I understand it, some jurisdictions require that warranty
disclaimers be "emphasized". Apparently there's case law that
uppercasing is an acceptable form of emphasis and no lawyer has
cared enough to try to make new precedent that other forms are
also acceptable.
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