I included a reminder about the warranty it because it's included in big bold letters in the about information for GIMP. I have no basis for judging whether that's necessary or not, other than someone thought it was worth shouting digitally about. :) -C On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:13 PM, Gez <listas@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > El vie, 18-09-2015 a las 14:10 -0300, Gez escribió: > > > "The program itself is governed by the terms of the GNU General > > Public > > License (GPL) which ensures that users have freedom to use the > > program > > with any purpose, study and modify its source code and share > > modifications to the community. You are allowed and encouraged to > > share > > the program with your friends and colleagues, install it in your > > school > > or organization and use it for any purpose. > > If you're planning to modify the program and re-distribute it with > > your > > modifications, make sure that you make the source code available too. > > That's the only obligation required by the license. > > Follow [this link] if you need more information abut the GNU General > > Public License." > > I missed the "no warranty" bit. Is it really necessary? If yes, why? > Is it some required legal waiver or just a kind way of saying "don't > blame us if something went wrong and you lose your work"? > > Personally I find that kind of stuff really unnecessary. It's like > making an excuse in advance: "look, it may fail, don't blame us". > If someone wants to sue you I don't think the "no warranty" claim will > make any difference. But seriously, who would do that? > > I've been working with software for 20 years, I've lost count of the > times I've lost work because software failed, crashed or froze. > I may or may not cursed the software and its makers when that happened, > but never thought about suing the makers for the half hour of work I > lost because I forgot to hit CTRL+S (or CTRL+E :-p) > > That being said, GIMP is probably the most stable software I use, which > makes that remark even more unnecessary. > > Gez. > _______________________________________________ > gimp-developer-list mailing list > List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx > List membership: > https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list > List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list > _______________________________________________ gimp-developer-list mailing list List address: gimp-developer-list@xxxxxxxxx List membership: https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gimp-developer-list List archives: https://mail.gnome.org/archives/gimp-developer-list
