I have also changed the spelling of licence to license since that's how it is all over the gnu website. lol Guess the Americans win this round. ;) On Fri, Sep 18, 2015 at 7:40 PM, C R <cajhne@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > 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
