[copyleft-next] use of "shall"

Ben Cotton bcotton at funnelfiasco.com
Tue Nov 27 03:09:47 UTC 2012


On Mon, Nov 26, 2012 at 10:04 PM, Luis Villa <luis at tieguy.org> wrote:
> "If any provision of this License is invalid or unenforceable under
> applicable law, it [has a duty to] not affect the validity or
> enforceability of the remainder of this License..."
>
> shall -> will ("it will not affect...")

Since we're quibbling, I'd argue that "does" is better than "will"
here in order to keep verb tenses the same. Otherwise, I think your
suggestions are a good idea.


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