What if my particular situation isn quite covered in the statements of common understandings?
The Working Group recognizes that it is impossible for a set of statements designed to serve a general constituency to spell out all possible situations. Exceptional circumstances are inevitable and efforts to specify every contingency run the risk of creating unforeseen difficulties that limit rather than expand the statements’ usefulness to the broader community. If one or both partners in a transaction feel that their circumstances are exceptional in some way, it may be possible to work with the SERU statements and rely on ongoing discussions to resolve concerns. Another approach could be to specify a situation as a note on the purchase order (for instance, a statement that payment covers a longer term or an additional user group or other agreed-upon use parameter could be noted). Alternatively, it may preferable to use a license to spell out all of the terms in question.
