Editing UkLaw

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== Do you know of any free software licences designed or audited for the law of one of the UK countries? ==
The Vita Nuova Liberal Source Licence http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno/licence.html may be a free software licence designed for the UK. I would appreciate help checking it.
The licence of http://www.polyml.org/ would be a free software licence if one term (forced disclosure upstream) was fixed. See http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2002/debian-legal-200207/msg00011.html
There's a creative commons UK localisation project:
http://creativecommons.org/projects/international/uk/
One of a number of localisations, the aim is to audit CC licenses for the UK (and shake out any US-specifics from the original licenses), and there's some heavyweight legal minds involved. Apparently, no CC licences are free software licences http://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2004/debian-legal-200404/msg00031.html
The [http://eu-datagrid.web.cern.ch/eu-datagrid/license.html EU DataGrid Licence] is listed by OSI, but seems likely to be non-UK.
Reportedly, there are few material differences between the copyright law in England and Wales and other UK parts. (Space Bunny post to fsfe-uk and private emails.)
=== Background References Related Matters ===
CDPA 1988 as amended http://www.jenkins-ip.com/patlaw/index1.htm
* Cantor Fitzgerald International v Tradition (UK) Ltd [1999] 
* Sweeney v Macmillan Publishers Ltd [2002] RPC 35.
* Hyde Park Residence Ltd v Yelland2 [2001] Ch 143, [2000] RPC 604 
* Ashdown v Telegraph Group Ltd [2001] 4 All ER 666
Daniel A. Tysver (Beck & Tysver), "Implied Licences", in Bit-Law, http://www.bitlaw.com/copyright/license.html#implied
Goetz, C. and Scott, R. The Limits of Expanded Choice: An Analysis of the
Interactions Between Express and Implied Contract Terms, 73 Calif. L. Rev.
261.

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