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[Legal wording] Hippocratic license section 3.1 final `and` clause: AND vs OR ? #62

Open wesinator opened 2 years ago

wesinator commented 2 years ago

I have a question, point of clarification about the legal wording of the license and generated versions of the license. Disclaimer: I do not have formal law training, nor am I a lawyer or legal agent.

I noticed on generated licenses, in the final clause of section 3.1 (the "Licensee SHALL NOT" section), the word and is used to link all the "shall not" items. e.g. https://firstdonoharm.dev/version/3/0/bod-eco-media-my-soc-sup-tal-usta-xuar.html


3.1.17. Interfere with Workers' free exercise of the right to organize and associate (See Article 20, United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights; C087 - Freedom of Association and Protection of the Right to Organise Convention, 1948 (No. 87), International Labour Organization; Article 8, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights); and

3.1.18. Harm the environment in a manner inconsistent with local, state, national, or international law.


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For the shall not section, is this the correct/intended meaning? Since the use of and seems to imply that, in a literal interpretation, that licensee cannot do ALL of these things, but may do some of them which obviously is not the intent of the license/contract.

It seems the better linking word to use would be or, or and/or https://law.stackexchange.com/questions/6220/how-should-and-and-or-be-used-when-listing-items-in-a-contract https://www.wcl.american.edu/impact/lawwire/and-or-and-the-proper-use-of-legal-language/

Maybe this is too much of a computer science/programmer reading and not a legal reading of the text, but it seems potentially problematic and/or ambiguous to me.

For the 3.2 "SHALL" section, the use of and makes sense.


the full license section 3.1 has the same issue image